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TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY 

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TREATY 

BETWEEN 

THE UNITED STATES AND GERMANY, SIGNED ON 
AUGUST 25, 1921, TO RESTORE FRIENDLY RELA- 
TIONS EXISTING BETWEEN THE TWO NATIONS 
PRIOR TO THE OUTBREAK OF WAR 

TOGETHER WITH 

SECTION 1 OF PART IV AND PARTS V, VI, VIII, IX, X, XI, 

XII, XIV, AND XV OF THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES 

UNDER WHICH THE UNITED STATES CLAIMS 

RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES 




WASHINGTON 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

1921 



SUBMITTED BY ME,. BORAK. 

In the Senate of the United States, 

September 23, 1921. 
Ordered, That the proposed treaty with Germany, transmitted to 
the Senate on September 21, 1921. being printed as a Senate document, 
together with section 1 of Part IV, and Parts V, VI, VIII, IX, X, 
XI, XII, XIV, and XV of the Treaty of Peace with Germany 
signed at Versailles on June 28, 1919. 
Attest : 

George A. Sanderson, Secretary. 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 
j;EC£JVED 



67th Congress, ) SENATE. J Executive 

1st Session. ) 1 G. 



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TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY 



MESSAGE 

FROM THE 

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 

TRANSMITTING 

A TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND GERMANY, SIGNED 
ON AUGUST 25, 1921, TO RESTORE FRIENDLY RELATIONS EXIST- 
ING BETWEEN THE TWO NATIONS PRIOR TO THE OUTBREAK 
OF WAR, 



September 2!, 1921. — Read; convention read the first time and referred to the Com- 
mittee on Foreign Relations, and, together Avith the meassage, ordered to be printed 
for the use of the Senate and to be made public. 



To the Senate : 

I transmit herewith, to receive the advice and consent of the Senate 
to its ratification, a treaty between the United States and Germany, 
signed on August 25, 1921, to restore the friendly relations existing 
between the two nations prior to the outbreak of war. 

Warren G. Harding. 

The White House, September 21, 1921. 



The President: 

The undersigned, the Secretary of State, has the honor to lay 
before the President, with a view to its transmission to the Senate 
to receive the advice and consent of that body to its ratification, if 
his judgment approve thereof, a treaty between the United States 
and Germany, signed on August 25, 1921, to restore the friendly 
relations existing between the two nations prior to the outbreak of 
war. 

Respectfully submitted. 

Charles E. Hughes. 

Department of State, 

Washington, September 19, 1921. 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 



3>utfd)Ianb unb bte 23ereinigten 
©taaten bon 2lmerifa: 

3n ber (Srtoagung, bah bie 93creintg= 
ten ©taaten gemetnfdjaftltd) mtt it)ren 
9}?itfriegfitf)renben am 11. Sftobember 
1918 cinen SBaffcnftillftanb mtt 
SDeutfdjIanb berembart fjaben, botnit 
ein griebenSbertrag abgefdjloffcn toerben 
fbnne; 

3n ber (Srtofigung, bah ber Skrtrag 
bon SBcrfattteg am 28. 3unt 1919 
untergetdmet rourbe unb gemcife ben 
33eftimmungen beS Strttfel 440 in 
f raft gctreten, aber Don ben SBeremtgten 
©taaten ittdjt ratifigtert toorbcn ift; 

$n ber (Srlnagung, bah ber $ongrejj 
ber SBeretntgten ©taaten einen gcmcin= 
[amen Sefdjlufe gefafet l>at, ber bon 
bem ^rafibenten am 2. 3utt 1921 
gencbmtgt morben ift unb tm 2(u3uig 
tote folgt lautet: 

„23 e f d) 1 o f f e n b o m © e n a t 
unb bem 9iepafcntanten = 
fyauSber 33ereinigten © t a a - 
ten oon % m e r t f a , bie sum 
,f o n (| r c fe berfammelt f i n b, 
bah ber burd) ben am 6. Sprit 1917 
genebmtgtcn gcmeinfamen 53efd)tuf$ bc£ 
&ougreffe3 erf (arte ftrtegSutftanb $tt>i- 
fdjen ber Ataiferlid) ITeutfdien Wegtcruug 
unb ben Skretnigten ©taaten bon 
Stmertfa f)termit fur beenbet crtlart 
nrirb. 

„© e 1 1 i o n 2. Xiafe burd) 9(bgabe 
biefer (Srflfirung unb aU ein £ett 
babon ben SBeremtgten ©taaten bon 
9Imcrifa unb tfjren ©taatSangebbrigen 
jcbmebe unb alle 9ied)te, ^rtotlcgicn, 
(2ntfd)abtguugen, 9ieparationen ober 
SSorteile emfdjlte&tid) be§ 9fed)t8, fie 
jtoangStoeife burd)$ufut)ren, au3briitflid) 
borbebaltcn roerben, auf toetdje bie 
SBcretntgtcn ©taaten bon Slmertfa ober 
itjre ©taatScmgeljorigen nad) ben am 
11. 9fobember 1918 unterseidmeten 
ifi>affenftWftanb3bebingungcn fobjie ir- 
genbtoeldjen (Srtoeiterungen ober 2Ib= 
anbcrungen berfelben einen Slnfprudj 
erioorben fytben; ober bie bon ben 
SSeremtgten ©taaten bon Slmertfa in* 
folge itjrer 53eteiliguug am triege 
crmorben toorben ftnb ober fid) in tfyrem 



Germany and The United 
States of America. 

Considering that the United 
States, acting in conjunction with 
its co-belligerents, entered into an 
Armistice with Germany on No- 
vember 11, 1918, in order that a 
Treaty of Peace might be con- 
cluded ; 

Considering that the Treaty of 
Versailles was signed on June 28, 
1919, and came into force accord- 
ing to the terms of its Article 440, 
but has not been ratified by the 
United States; 

Considering that the Congress 
of the United States passed a 
Joint Resolution, approved by the 
President July 2, 1921, which 
reads in part as follows: 

"Resolved by the Senate and 
House of Representatives of . the 
United States of America in Con- 
gress assembled, That the state 
of war declared to exist between 
the Imperial German Govern- 
ment and the United States of 
America by the joint resolution of 
Congress approved April 6, 1917, 
is hereby declared at an end. 

"Sec. 2. That in making this 
declaration, and as a part of it, 
there are expressly reserved to the 
United States of America and its 
nationals any and all rights, priv- 
ileges, indemnities, reparations, 
or advantages, together with the 
right to enforce the same, to 
which it or they have become en- 
titled under the terms of the ar- 
mistice signed November 11, 1918, 
or any extensions or modifica- 
tions thereof; or which were ac- 
quired by or are in the possession 
of the United States of America 
by reason of its participation in 
the war or to which its nationals 
have thereby become rightfully 
entitled; or which, under the 



TEEATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 



SBefii? befinbcn; ober auf bie ifjre 
<Staatv>angel)origen baburd) redjtmafcig 
2tnfprud) ertoorben baben; ober bie in 
bem Skrtrage Don SBerfaitteg ^u ifjren 
ober tf)rer ©taatesanget)brigen ©unftcti 
fcftgefcijt roorben finb; ober auf bie [ie 
at3 eine ber alliierten unb affojuerten 
^auptmddjtc ober fraft irgenbetneg 
Pom $ongre{j befdjlo[fenen ©efeljeS 
ober fonfttoie einen 5tnfprud) fjaben. 
***** 

„@ e 1 1 i o n 5. 2llle3 (Sigentum ber 
$aiferlid) 3>utfd)en 9iegierung ober 
ifjre^ s Jcad)fofger3 ober ifjrer 'ftadjfolger 
unb ba3 (Sigentum alter bcutfd)en 
©taat3angef)brigen, bag fid) am 6. 
SlprU 1917 im 93efi£ ober in ber 
©etualt ber 33ereinigten ©taaten Don 
2tmertfa ober eineS ifjrer SBeamten, 
$>ertreter ober ?lngeftetlten befanb ober 
feit biefem £age in beren 33efitj ober 
©etoalt gelangt ober ©egenftanb einer 
ft-orbcrung feitenS berfelben gcmefen ift, 
gleid)t>iel au3 toeldjem Urfprung ober 
au3 toetdjer Ufttigfett, unb atteS (§igen= 
turn ber $. u. $. Dfterreid)ifd)41n 5 
garifdjen 9iegierung ober ifyreS ^ad)* 
fofgerS ober ifyrer 9iad)folger unb alter 
bfterreid)ifd)=ungarifd)en ©taatSange* 
bbrigen, bag fid) am 7. ©ejembet 1917 
im SBefiij ober in ber ©eloalt ber 
23ereinigten ©taaten Pon Slmertfa ober 
eineS itjrer SBeamten, 93ertreter ober 
2lugeftet(ten befaub ober feit biefem 
£age in beren 53efi£ ober @ett>att 
gelangt ober ©egenftanb einer §orber= 
ung feitenS berfelben getoefen ift, gteid)= 
Piel auS toetd)em Urfprung ober auS 
toeldjer Jatigfeit, foil won ben 3>ereinig= 
ten ©taaten don 2tmerifa juriidEbe* 
fatten unb bariibcr feine SBerfiigung 
getroffen toerben, fotoeit nid)t gefe^tid) 
bariibcr bereits oerfiigt ift ober im 
einjelnen fiiuftig bariiber oerfiigt ftirb. 
2)ie3 gilt bis ^u bem ,3eitpunf't, mo bie 
^atfcrlid) 3)eutfd)e 9?egierung belief) 1 
unggmeife bie $. u. $. Ofterreid)ifd)= 
Ungarifd)e 9xegierung ober itjr ^ad)= 
folger ober it)re s )kd)folger angemeffene 
33orfet)rungen uir 53efricbigung alter 
gorberungen gegen eine ber genannten 
$egierungen fcitenS alter ^erfonen ot)nc 
9Uicffid)t auf ifjren SSotmfitj getroffen 



treaty of Versailles, have been 
stipulated for its or their benefit; 
or to which it is entitled as one of 
the principal allied and associated 
powers; or to which it is entitled 
by virtue of any Act of Acts of 
Congress; or otherwise. 



"Sec. 5. All property of the 
Imperial German Government, or 
its successor or successors, and of 
all German nationals, which was, 
on April 6, 1917, in or has since 
that date come into the posses- 
sion or under control of, or has 
been the subject of a demand by 
the United States of America or 
of any of its officers, agents, or 
employees, from any source or by 
any agency whatsoever, and all 
property of the Imperial and 
Royal Austro-Hungarian Gov- 
ernment, or its successor or suc- 
cessors, and of all Austro-Hun- 
garian nationals which was on De- 
cember 7, 1917, in or has since 
that date come into the posses- 
sion or under control of, or has 
been the subject of a demand by 
the United States of America or 
any of its officers, agents, or em- 
ployees, from any source or by 
any agency whatsoever, shall be 
retained by the United States of 
America and no disposition there- 
of made, except as shall have 
been heretofore or specifically 
hereafter shall be provided by law 
until such time as the Imperial 
German Government and the 
Imperial and Royal Austro-Hun- 
garian Government, or their suc- 
cessor or successors, shall have 
respectively made suitable pro- 
vision for the satisfaction of all 
claims against said Governments 
respectively, of all persons, where- 
soever domiciled, who owe per- 
manent allegiance to the United 
States of America and who have 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 



baben, bie git btn 3$ereinigten ©taaten 
Hon Slmertfa in einem bauentben £rcu= 
berbaltuig ftetjcn, unb bie burd) |>anb= 
lungen ber ^aifcrlid) 5Deutfd;en ^e- 
gierung ober ibrer SBertreter obcr ber 
$. u. .ft. Ofterrcid)ifd)4Ingartfd)en 
SKegicrung ober beren 33ertreter fett bent 
31. 3uli 1914 SBcrluft, ^adjtetf ober 
©djaben an ifjrer ^erfon ober ttjrem 
(Stgentum unmtttelbar ober nttttelbar, 
jet eg burd) ben iBcfifc Don 5(ntcilcn 
beutfdier, bfierreid)tfd)=ungarifd)er, ame= 
rifantfdier ober anberer $orpcrfdjaften 
ober infolge Don geinbfeftgMten ober 
trgenbtoeldjen £rieggljatiblungen ober 
auf anbere SSeife erUttelt tjaben, ferner 
foldjcn ^erfouen, bie in ben SBeremtgten 
©taaten Don ^Interim in einem bau- 
entben £reuberl)altni3 fteljen, bag SDtetft* 
begitnftigunggrecbt in alien 2lngelcgcn= 
beitcn, betreffenb 9cieberiaffung, ©c- 
fdiaftgbetrieb, SBerufgaugitbung, 23et> 
fefjr, ©dnffabrt, |)anbel unb getocrb* 
ltdje ©djufcredjte, jugeftcmbeu b^ben, 
emerlei, ob biefeg 9ied)t auf bie ^atio= 
nalitat abgeftellt ober fonfttote beftvmmt 
tft; cnbtid) big bie -ft'aifcrlid) ©eutfdje 
SJtegienmg bejiefumggfoetfe bie $ . u. $. 
Ofterreid)ifd)=Ungarifd)e Sftegterung ober 
ifyr s 3cad)foiger ober tfrre Sftadjfolger ben 
^ereiuigten ©taaten don Slmerifa ge^ 
gentiber alfe Don biefen toabrenb beg 
.fricgeg aufcrlegten ober Derfiigten 
©trafgelbet, SBerhrirfungen, SBujjen unb 
33e[d)Iagnabnien beftcittgt babm, gletdj- 
did ob biefe (Sigentum ber $aiferlid) 
©eutfdjen 9iegterung ober beutfdjer 
©taatgangebbriger ober ber $. u. $. 
Dfterreid)ifd) = Ungarifdjen 9&gierung 
ober b[terreid)i(d)=ungarifd)er ©taatg= 
angel)briger betreffen, unb big (ie auf 
alien unb jeben ©elbanfprud) gegen bie 
S3ereinigten ©taaten Don Slmerifa Der= 
jidjtet baben." 

$n bent 2£unfd)e, bie frcunb* 
fd)aftlid)en 33esicl)ungen, bie Dor Slug* 
brud) beg ^riegcg jimfdjen ben beiben 
s Jtationcn beftanben baben, toteberljer? 
juftellen, 



suffered, through the acts of the 
Imperial German Government, or 
its agents, or the Imperial and 
Royal Austro-Hungarian Gov- 
ernment, or its agents, since July 
31, 1914, loss, damage, or injury 
to their persons or property, 
directly or indirectly, whether 
through the ownership of shares 
of stock in German, Austro-Hun- 
garian, American, or other cor- 
porations, or in consequence of 
hostilities or of any operations of 
war, or otherwise, and also shall 
have granted to persons owing 
permanent allegiance to the Uni- 
ted States of America most-fa- 
vored-nation treatment, whether 
the same be national or otherwise, 
in all matters affecting residence, 
business, profession, trade, navi- 
gation, commerce and industrial 
property rights, and until the 
Imperial German Government 
and the Imperial and Royal Aus- 
tro-Hungarian Government, or 
their successor or successors, shall 
have respectivly confirmed to the 
United States of America all fines, 
forfeitures, penalties, and seiz- 
ures imposed or made by the 
United States of America during 
the war, whether in respect to the 
property of the Imperial German 
Government or German nationals 
or the Imperial and Royal Austro- 
Hungarian Government or Austro- 
Hungarian nationals, and shall 
have waived any and all pecuni- 
ary claims against the United 
States of America." 



Being desirous of restoring the 
friendly relations existing be- 
tween the two Nations prior to 
the outbreak of war: 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 



£aben gu btefem £toecfe ju ibren 
$edountiid)tigten bcftcltt: 

ber s ]3raftbeut beS £)eutfd)en 
9?etd)g 

ben 3ieid)3minifter bcS 2Iu3toftrtt= 
gen, £>errn D r . g-ricbricb Rosen 
unb 
ber s 13ra[tbe'nt bcr $eretnig = 
ten ©tact ten don ?tmertfa 

ben (Somntiffioner ber SSeretnigten 
©taaten don Sftnertta in iDeutfdj* 
fanb, Jperrn 61U8 Soring 
Diesel.. 

3Me(e fyaben nad) HuStaufd) ttjrer 
fiir gut unb rtdjtig befunbenen S3oll= 
macbten fotgenbeS oereinbart: 



Have for that purpose ap- 
pointed their plenipotentiaries: 

THE PRESIDENT OF THE 
GERMAN EMPIRE 

Dr. Friedrich Rosen, Minis- 
ter for Foreign Affairs, and 

THE PRESIDENT OF THE 
UNITED STATES OF AMERI- 
CA 

Ellis Loring Dresel, Com- 
missioner of the United 
States of America to Ger- 
many, 

Who, having communicated 
their full powers, found to be in 
good and due form, have agreed 
as follows: 



Slrtifel I. 

©eutfdjlcmb berpfttdjtet fief), ben 
SBereinigtcn ©taaten jit getnabren unb 
bie S?ereinigten ©taaten fallen befiijen 
unb geniefcen afte Sftedjte, s ]3ridilegien, 
Gmtfdjabigungen, SReparattonen ober 
SSorteile, bie in bent dorgenannten ge= 
meinfdmftlid)en 33efd)tuffe be$ $on* 
greffeS ber SSereinigten ©taaten dom 2. 
^ult 1921 nciber bcjeia'jnet ftnb, mit 
©tafdjlufj after 9?ed)te unb 33orteiie, bie 
jugunften ber 5kreiuigtcn Staaten in 
bent SSertrag don SBerfaitteS feftgefetjt 
ftnb unb bie 53ereinigten ©taaten in 
doftem Umfange geniefjen fallen, un= 
geaditet ber Sntfctdje, baft btefer SBertrag 
don ben 33ereinigtcn otaaten nidjt 
rattfijiert toorben ift. 

«rt He 1 II. 



Article I. 

Germany undertakes to accord 
to the United States, and the 
United States shall have and 
enjoy, all the rights, privileges, 
indemnities, reparations or ad- 
vantages specified in the afore- 
said Joint Resolution of the 
Congress of the United States 
of July 2, 1921, including all the 
rights and advantages stipulated 
for the benefit of the United 
States in the Treaty of Versailles 
which the United States shall 
fully enjoy notwithstanding the 
fact that such Treaty has not 
been ratified by the United 
States. 

Article II. 



3n ber Slbftdjt, bie 3$erpflidjtungen 
£)eutfd)tanb§ gemttfj bent dorbergeben= 
ben ?IrtifeI mit SBejteljung auf getoiffe 
Seftimmungen be3 SSertragS don SSer- 
fatfteS niiber ju beftimmen, beftefjt 
SinderftanbntS unb (Einigung jtotfefjen 
ben £>oben S?ertragfd)liefeenben Jeilen 
baritber: 

1. bafj bie 9?ed)tc unb 23orteite, bie 
in jenem 3>ertrage gugunften ber 
S3ereinigten ©taaten feftgefetjt ftnb unb 
bie bie S?ereinigten ©taaten befifcen 



With a view to defining more 
particularly the obligations of 
Germany under the foregoing 
Article with respect to certain 
provisions in the Treaty of Ver- 
sailles, it is understood and 
agreed between the High Con- 
tracting Parties : 

(1) That the rights and ad- 
vantages stipulated in that 
Treaty for the benefit of the 
United States, which it is in- 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 



unb gemeften fallen, biejenigen finb, 
bie in 2lbfdjmtt 1 beg STeileg IV unb 
in ben £eilen V, VI, VIII, IX, X, 
XI, XII, XIV, unb XV aufgefiifjrt 
finb. 

SSenn bie 3>ereinigten ©tnaten bie 
in ben SBeftimmungeu jeneg 23ertragg 
feftgcfeijten unb in btefem s }?aragrapf)en 
ertoabnten Sftedjte unb SSorteile fin- 
fid) in SInfprud) nelnnen, toerben (ie 
bie§ in einer SBeife tun, bie mit ben 
SDeutfdjlanb nad) biefen 33eftimmungen 
guftefjenben 9ied)tcn im ©inflang ftetjt; 

2. ba$ bie 33creinigten ©taatcn nid)t 
an bie 33eftimmuugen beg Steiteg I 
jeneg SSertragg nod) an irgenbtoelcbe 
53eftimmungen jeneg SBertragg, mit 
©nfdrtuft ber in 9tr. 1 biefeg SIrttfetg 
ertoabnten, gebunben fein follen, bie 
fid) auf bie SBolferbunbgfaijung be= 
Stcfjen, bah aud) bie ^crcinigten ©taaten 
burd) feine SDtofenabme beg S3olfer= 
bunbeg, beg SBolferbutibSrateS ober ber 
SSolferbunbgberfammlung gebunben fein 
follen, eg fei benn, ba$ bie 5>ercinigten 
©taaten augbriicfltd) ibre ^uftimmung 
ju einer foldjcn !>D?aftnal)me geben; 

3. baft bie 93ereinigten ©taaten feine 
23erpflid)tungen aug ben 93eftimmungen 
beg £etleg II, STetteS III, ber 3lb* 
fdjnittc 2 bi« einfd)lieftlid) 8 beg Jeileg 
IV unb beg Jeileg XIII beg beseid)* 
neten 23ertragg ober mit 33ejiebung auf 
biefe 53eftimmungen iibcrncbmen; 

4. baft, tofifyrenb bie SBeremigtett 
©taaten bered)tigt finb, an ber 9iepara- 
ttongfommiffion gcmiift ben 53eftim= 
mungen beg £eileg VIII jeneg SSer= 
tragg unb an irgenbeiner anberen auf 
@runb beg $crtragg ober eineg er= 
ganjenben llbcrcinfommeng eingefeijten 
$ommiffton teiljunebmen, bie 23er* 
etnigten ©taaten ntdjt berpflidjtet finb, 
fid) an irgenbeiner foldjcn it'ommiffion 
ju beteiligen, eg fei benn, baft fie bieg 
roolten; 

5. baft bie im Slrtifel 440 beg SSer= 
tragg Don 33erfaitleg ertofiljnten griftcn, 
fofteit fie fid) auf eine 90?aftnabme ober 
(Sntfd)lieftung ber ^ereinigten ©taaten 
bejieben, mit bem ^nfrafttreten beg 
gegentuartigen 23ertragg gu laufen be= 
ginnen follen. 



tended the United States shall 
have and enjoy, are those de- 
fined in Section 1, of Part IV, 
and Parts V, VI, VIII, IX, X, 
XI, XII, XIV, and XV. 

The United States in availing 
itself of the rights and advantages 
stipulated in the provisions of 
that Treaty mentioned in this 
paragraph will do so in a manner 
consistent with the rights ac- 
corded to Germany under such 
provisions. 

(2) That the United States 
shall not be bound by the pro- 
visions of Part I of that Treaty, 
nor by any provisions of that 
Treaty including those mentioned 
in Paragraph (1) of this Article, 
which relate to the Covenant 
of the League of Nations, nor 
shall the United States be bound 
by any action taken by the 
League of Nations, or by the 
Council or by the Assembly 
thereof, unless the United States 
shall expressly give its assent to 
such action. 

(3) That the United States as- 
sumes no obligations under or 
with respect to the provisions of 
Part II, Part III, Sections 2 to 8 
inclusive of Part IV, and Part 
XIII of that Treaty. 

(4) That, while the United 
States is privileged to participate 
in the Reparation Commission, 
according to the terms of Part 
VIII of that Treaty, and in any 
other Commission established un- 
der the Treaty or under any agree- 
ment supplemental thereto, the 
United States is not bound to 
participate in any such commis- 
sion unless it shall elect to do so. 

(5) That the periods of time to 
which reference is made in Article 
440 of the Treaty of Versailles shall 
run, with respect to any act or 
election on the part of the United 
States, from the date of the com- 
ing into force of the present 
Treaty. 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 



51 r t i f e I III. 

£)er gegenniiirtige SSertrag foil gemcife 
ben berfaffungSredjtudien gormen ber 
£>ol)en 5?ertragfd)ltefeenben 3TetIe ratify 
jiert toerben unb (oil fofort mtt Slu8= 
taufd) ber SKatififationSurfunben, ber 
fo balb aU mogltcf) in Berlin ftattfinben 
toirb, in $raft trcten. 

£u Urfunb beffen Ijaben bie beiber= 
(eitigcn 33eboftmitd)tigten biefcn 2>ertrag 
untergeid&net unb ifjrc ©iegcl beigefiigt. 

SluSgefcrttgt in boppelter Urfrfjrift 
in Berlin am 25. Sluguft 1921. 

(Signed.) Rosen. 

(Signed.) Ellis Loring Dresel. 



Article III. 

The present Treaty shall be 
ratified in accordance with the 
constitutional forms of the High 
Contracting Parties and shall take 
effect immediately on the ex- 
change of ratifications which shall 
take place as soon as possible at 
Berlin. 

In Witness Whereof, the re- 
spective plenipotentiaries have 
signed this Treaty and have here- 
unto affixed their seals. 

Done in duplicate in Berlin this 
twenty-fifth day of August, 1921. 
Rosen. [seal.] 

Ellis Loring Dresel. [seal.] 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY, SIGNED AT VERSAILLES 
JUNE 28, 1919. 

[Omitting Parts I, II, III, VII, and XIII.] 



PART IV 



-GERMAN RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OUTSIDE 
GERMANY. 

Article 118. 

In territory outside her European frontiers as fixed by the present 
Treaty, Germany renounces all rights, titles and privileges whatever 
in or over territory which belonged to her or to her allies, and all 
rights, titles and privileges whatever their origin which she held as 
against the Allied and Associated Powers. 

Germany hereby undertakes to recognize and to conform to the 
measures which may be taken now or in the future by the Principal 
Allied and Associated Powers, in agreement where necessary with 
third Powers, in order to carry the above stipulation into effect. 

In particular Germany declares her acceptance of the following 
Articles relating to certain special subjects. 

Section I. 

GERMAN COLONIES. 

Article 119. 

Germany renounces in favour of the Principal Allied and Asso- 
ciated Powers all her rights and titles over her oversea possessions. 

Article 120. 

All movable and immovable property in such territories belonging 
to the German Empire or to any German State shall pass to the 
Government exercising authority over such territories, on the terms 
laid down in Article 257 of Part IX (Financial Clauses) of the 
present Treaty. The decision of the local courts in any dispute as 
to the nature of such property shall be final. 

Article 121. 

The provisions of Sections I and IV of Part X (Economic Clauses) 
of the present Treaty shall apply in the case of these territories 
whatever be the form of Government adopted for them. 

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12 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

Article 122. 

The Government exercising authority over such territories may 
make such provisions as it thinks fit with reference to the repatria- 
tion from them of German nationals and to the conditions upon 
which German subjects of European origin shall, or shall not, be 
allowed to reside, hold property, trade or exercise a profession in 

Article 123. 

The provisions of Article 260 of Part IX (Financial Clauses) of 
the present Treaty shall apply in the case of all agreements con- 
cluded with German nationals for the construction or exploitation 
of public works in the German oversea possessions, as well as any 
sub-concessions or contracts resulting therefrom which may have 
been made to or with such nationals. 

Article 124. 

Germany hereby undertakes to pay, in accordance with the estimate 
to be presented by the French Government and approved by the 
Reparation Commission, reparation for damage suffered by French 
nationals in the Cameroons or the frontier zone by reason of the acts 
of the German civil and military authorities and of German private 
individuals during the period from January 1, 1900, to August 1, 

Article 125. 

Germany renounces all rights under the Conventions and Agree- 
ments with France of November 4, 1911, and September 28, 1912, 
relating to Equatorial Africa. She undertakes to pay to the French 
Government, in accordance with the estimate to be presented by that 
Government and approved by the Reparation Commission, all the 
deposits, credits, advances, etc., effected by virtue of these instru- 
ments in favour of Germany. 

Article 126. 

Germany undertakes to accept and observe the agreements made 
or to be made by the Allied and Associated Powers or some of them 
with any other Power with regard to the trade in arms and spirits, 
and to the matters dealt with in the General Act of Berlin of Febru- 
ary 26, 1885, the General Act of Brussels of July 2, 1890, and the 
conventions completing or modifying the same. 

Article 127. 

The native inhabitants of the former German oversea possessions 
shall be entitled to the diplomatic protection of the Governments 
exercising authority over those territories. 

PART V. 

MILITARY, NAVAL AND AIR CLAUSES. 

In order to render possible the initiation of a general limitation 
of the armaments of all nations, Germany undertakes strictly to 
observe the military, naval and air clauses which follow. 



TKEATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 13 

Section I. 

MILITARY CLAUSES. 

Chapter I. 

effectives and cadres of the german army. 

Article 159. 

The German military forces shall be demobilized and reduced as 
prescribed hereinafter. 

Article 160. 

(1) By a date which must not be later than March 31, 1920, the 
German Army must not comprise more than seven divisions of 
infantry and three divisions of cavalry. 

After that date the total number of effectives in the Army of the 
States constituting Germany must not exceed one hundred thousand 
men, including officers and establishments of depots. The Army 
shall be devoted exclusively to the maintenance of order within the 
territory and to the control of the frontiers. 

The total effective strength of offi: ers, including the personnel of 
staffs, whatever their composition, must not exceed four thousand. 

(2) Divisions and Army Corps headquarters staffs shall be organ- 
ised in accordance with Table No. I annexed to this Section. 

The number and strengths of the units of infantry, artillery, engi- 
neers, technical services and troops laid down in the aforesaid Table 
constitute maxima which must not be exceeded. 

The following units may each have their own depot: 
An Infantry regiment; 
A Cavalry regiment; 
A regiment of Field Artillery; 
A battalion of Pioneers. 

(3) The divisions must not be grouped under more than two army 
corps headquarters staffs. 

The maintenance or formation of forces differently grouped or of 
other organisations for the command of troops or for preparation 
for war is forbidden. 

The Great German General Staff and all similar organisations 
shall be dissolved and may not be reconstituted in any form. 

The officers, or persons in the position of officers, in the Ministries 
of War in the different States in Germany and in the Administra- 
tions attached to them, must not exceed three hundred in number and 
are included in the maximum strength of four thousand laid down 
in the third sub-paragraph of paragraph (1) of this Article. 

Article 161. 

Army administrative services consisting of civilian personnel not 
included in the number of effectives prescribed by the present Treaty 
will have such personnel reduced in each class to one-tenth of that 
laid down in the Budget of 1913. 



14 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

Article 162. 

The number of employees or officials of the German States, such* 
as customs officers, forest guards and coastguards, shall not exceed 
that of the employees or officials functioning in these capacities in 
1913. 

The number of gendarmes and employees or officials of the local 
or municipal police may only be increased to an extent corresponding; 
to the increase of population since 1913 in the districts or munici- 
palities in which they are employed. 

These employees and officials may not be assembled for military 
training. 

Article 1G3. 

The reduction of the strength of the German military forces as- 
provided for in Article 160 may be effected gradually in the follow- 
ing manner: 

Within three months from the coming into force of the present 
Treaty the total number of effectives must be reduced to 200,000 
and the number of units must not exceed twice the number of those 
laid down in Article 160. 

At the expiration of this period, and at the end of each subse- 
quent period of three months, a Conference of military experts of 
the Principal Allied and Associated Powers will fix the reductions 
to be made in the ensuing three months, so that by March 31, 1920. 
at the latest the total number of German effectives does not exceed 
the maximum number of 100,000 men laid down in Article 160. 
In these successive reductions the same ratio between the number of 
officers and of men, and between the various kinds of units, shall be 
maintained as is laid down in that Article. 



Chapter II. 

armament, munitions and material. 

Article 164. 

Up till the time at which Germany is admitted as a member of 
the League of Nations the German Army must not possess an arma- 
ment greater than the amounts fixed in Table No. II annexed to- 
this Section, with the exception of an optional increase not exceed- 
ing one-twentyfifth part for small arms and one-fiftieth part for 
guns, which shall be exclusively used to provide for such eventual 
replacements as may be necessary. 

Germany agrees that after she has become a member of the League 
of Nations the armaments fixed in the said Table shall remain in 
force until they are modified by the Council of the League. Fur- 
thermore she hereby agrees strictly to observe the decisions of the 
Council of the League on this subject. 

Article 165. 

The maximum number of guns, machine guns, trench -mortars T 
rifles and the amount of ammunition and equipment which Ger- 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 15 

many is allowed to maintain during the period between the coming 
into force of the present Treaty and the date of March 31, 1920, 
referred to in Article 160, shail bear the same proportion to the 
amount authorized in Table No III annexed to this Section as the 
strength of the German Army as reduced from time to time in 
accordance with Article 163 bears to the strength permitted under 
Article 160. 

Article 166. 

At the date of March 31, 1920, the stock of munitions which the 
German Army may have at its disposal shall not exceed the amounts 
fixed in Table No. Ill annexed to this Section. 

Within the same period the German Government will store 
these stocks at points to be notified to the Governments of the 
Principal Allied and Associated Powers. The German Govern- 
ment is forbidden to establish any other stocks, depots or reserves 
of munitions. 

Article 167. 

The number and calibre of the guns constituting at the date of the 
coming into force of the present Treaty the armament of the forti- 
fied works, fortresses, and any land or coast forts which Germany 
is allowed to retain must be notified immediately by the German 
Government to the Governments of the Principal Allied and 
Associated Powers, and will constitute maximum amounts which 
may not be exceeded. 

Within two months from the coming into force of the present 
Treaty, the maximum stock of ammunition for these guns will be 
reduced to, and maintained at, the following uniform rates : — fifteen 
hundred rounds per piece for those the calibre of which is 10.5 cm. 
and under: five hundred rounds per piece for those of higher calibre. 

Article 168. 

The manufacture of arms, munitions, or any war material, shall 
only be carried out in factories or works the location of which shall 
be communicated to and approved by the Governments of the Princi- 
pal Allied and Associated Powers, and the number of which they 
retain the right to restrict. 

Within three months from the coming into force of the present 
Treaty, all other establishments for the manufacture, preparation, 
storage or design of arms, munitions, or any war material whatever 
shall be closed down. The same applies to all arsenals except those 
used as depots for the authorised stocks of munitions. Within the 
same period the personnel of these arsenals will be dismissed. 

Article 169. 

Within two months from the coming into force of the present 
Treaty German arms, munitions and war material, including anti- 
aircraft material, existing in Germany in excess of the quantities 
allowed, must be surrendered to the Governments of the Principal 
Allied and Associated Powers to be destroyed or rendered useless. 



16 TKEATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

This will also apply to any special plant intended for the manufac- 
ture of military material, except such as may be recognised as neces- 
sary for equipping the authorised strength of the German army. 

The surrender in question willl be effected at such points in Ger- 
man territory as may be selected by the said Governments. 

Within the same period arms, munitions and war material, includ- 
ing anti-aircraft material, of origin other than German, in whatever 
state they may be, will be delivered to the said Governments, who 
will decide as to their disposal. 

Arms and munitions which on account of the successive reductions 
in the strength of the German army become in excess of the amounts 
authorized by Tables II and III annexed to this Section must be 
handed over in the manner laid down above within such periods as 
may be decided by the Conferences referred to in Article 163. 

Article 170. 

Importation into Germany of arms, munitions and war material 
of every kind shall be strictly prohibited. 

The same applies to the manufacture for, and export to, foreign 
countries of arms, munitions and war material of every kind. 

Article 171. 

The use of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases and all analogous 
liquids, materials or devices being prohibited, their manufacture and 
importation are strictly forbidden in Germany. 

The same applies to materials specially intended for the manufac- 
ture, storage and use of the said products or devices. 

The manufacture and the importation into Germany of armoured 
cars, tanks and all similar constructions suitable for use in war are 
also prohibited. 

Article 172. 

Within a period of three months from the coming into force of 
the present Treaty, the German Government will disclose to the 
Governments of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers the 
nature and mode of manufacture of all explosives, toxic substances 
or other like chemical preparations used by them in the war or pre- 
pared by them for the purpose of being so used. 



Chapter III. 

recruiting and military training. 

Article 173. 

Universal compulsory military service shall be abolished in Ger- 
many. 

The German Army may only be constituted and recruited by means 
of voluntary enlistment. 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 17 

Article 174. 

The period of enlistment for non-commissioned officers and privates 
must be twelve consecutive years. 

The number of men discharged for any reason before the expiration 
of their term of enlistment must not exceed in any year five per cent, 
of the total effectives fixed by the second sub-paragraph of paragraph 
(1) of Article 160 of the present Treaty. 

Article 175. 

The officers who are retained in the Army must undertake the obli- 
gation to serve in it up to the age of forty-five years at least. 

Officers newly appointed must undertake to serve on the active list 
for twenty-five consecutive years at least. 

Officers who have previously belonged to any formations what-; 
ever of the Army, and who are not retained in the units allowed to 
be maintained, must not take part in any military exercise whether 
theoretical or practical, and will not be under any military obliga- 
tions whatever. 

The number of officers discharged for any reason before the expi- 
ration of their term of service must not exceed in any year five per 
cent, of the total effectives of officers provided for in the third sub- 
paragraph (1) of Article 160 of the present Treaty. 

Article 176. 

On the expiration of two months from the coming into force of 
the present Treaty there must only exist in Germany the number 
of military schools which is absolutely indispensable for the recruit- 
ment of the officers of the units allowed. These schools will be ex- 
clusively intended for the recruitment of officers of each arm, in the 
proportion of one school per arm. 

The number of students admitted to attend the courses of the said 
schools will be strictly in proportion to the vacancies to be filled 
in the cadres of officers. The students and the cadres will be reck- 
oned in the effectives fixed by the second and third sub-paragraphs 
of paragraph (1) of Article 160 of the present Treaty. 

Consequently, and during the period fixed above, all military 
academies or similar institutions in Germany, as well as the different 
military schools for officers, student officers (Aspiranten) , cadets, 
non-commissioned officers or student non-commissioned officers 
(Aspiranten), other than the schools above provided for, will be 
abolished. 

Article 177. 

Educational establishments, the universities, societies of discharged 
soldiers, shooting or touring clubs and, generally speaking, associa- 
tions of every description, whatever be the age of their members, must 
not occupy themselves with any military matters. 

In particular they will be forbidden to instruct or exercise their 
members, or to allow them to be instructed or exercfeed, in the pro- 
fession or use of arms. 

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18 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

These societies, associations, educational establishments and uni- 
versities must have no connection with the Ministries of War or any 
other military authority. 

Article 178. 

All measures of mobilization or appertaining to mobilization are 
forbidden. 

In no case must formations, administrative services or General 
Staffs include supplementary cadres. 

Article 179. 

Germany agrees, from the coming into force of the present Treaty, 
not to accredit nor to send to any foreign country any military, naval 
or air mission, nor to allow any such mission to leave her territory, 
and Germany further agrees to take appropriate measures to prevent 
German nationals from leaving her territory to become enrolled in 
the Army, Navy or Air service of any foreign Power, or to be 
attached to such Army, Navy or Air service for the purpose of assist- 
ing in the military, naval or air training thereof, or otherwise for 
the purpose of giving military, naval or air instruction in any- for- 
eign country. 

The Allied and Associated Powers agree, so far as they are con- 
cerned, from the coming into force of the present Treaty, not to 
enrol in nor to attach to their armies or naval or air forces any Ger- 
man national for the purpose of assisting in the military training of 
such armies or naval or air forces, or otherwise to employ any such 
German national as military, naval or aeronautic instructor. 

The present provision does not, however, affect the right of France 
to recruit for the Foreign Legion in accordance with French military 
laws and regulations. 

Chapter IV. 

fortifications. 

Article 180. 

All fortified works, fortresses and field works situated in German 
territory to the west of a line drawn fifty kilometres to the east of 
the Ehine shall be disarmed and dismantled. 

Within a period of two months from the coming into force of 
the present Treaty such of the above fortified works, fortresses and 
field works as are situated in territory not occupied by Allied and 
Associated troops shall be disarmed, and within a further period 
of four months they shall be dismantled. Those which are situated 
in territory occupied by Allied and Associated troops shall be dis- 
armed and dismantled within such periods as may be fixed by the 
Allied High Command. 

The construction of any new fortification, whatever its nature and 
importance, is forbidden in the zone referred to in the first para- 
graph above. 

The system of fortified works of the southern and eastern fron- 
tiers of "Germany shall be maintained in its existing state. 



TKEATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

Table No. I. 



19 



STATE AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AKMY CORPS HEADQUARTERS STAFFS AND OF INFAN- 
TRY AND CAVALRY DIVISIONS. 

These tabular statements do not form a fixed establishment to be 
imposed on Germany, but the figures contained in them (number of 
units and strengths) represent maximum figures, which should not 
in any case be exceeded. 

I.— ARMY CORPS HEADQUARTERS STAFFS. 





Maxi- 
mum 
No. 
author- 
ised. 


Maximum strengths 
of each unit. 


Unit. 


Officers. 


N.CO.'s 

and M°n. 




2 


30 












60 


300 









II. ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INFANTRY DIVISION. 



Headquarters of an infantry division 

Headquarters of divisional infantry 

Headquarters of divisional artillery 

Regiment of infantry 

(Each regiment comprises 3 battalions of infantry. Each battalion com- 
prises 3 companies of infantry and 1 machine-gun company.) 

Trench mortar company 

Divisional squadron , 

Field artillery regiment 

(Each regiment comprises 3 groups of artillery. Each group comprises 
3 batteries.) 

Pioneer battalion 

(This battalion comprises 2 companies of pioneers, 1 pontoon detach- 
ment, 1 searchlight section.) 

Signal detachment , 

(This detachment comprises 1 telephone detachment, 1 listening section. 
1 carrier pigeon section.) 

Divisional medical service 

Parks and convoys 



Maxi- 
mum No 
of such 
units in 

a single 
division. 



Maximum strengths 
of each unit. 



Total for infantry division . 



N.CO.'s 
and men. 



30 
2,300 



400 

300 



III. ESTABLISHMENT OF A CAVALRY DIVISION. 



Unit 


Max i- 
mum No. 
of such 
units in 
a single 
division. 


Maximum strengths 
odeaeh unit. 


Officers. 

in 
20 


NT.C.O.'s 
and men. 




1 
6 

1 








(Each regiment comprises 4 squadrons.) * 












275 









20 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

Table No. II. 



TABULAR STATEMENT OF ARMAMENT ESTABLISHMENT FOR A MAXIMUM OF SEVEN 
INFANTRY DIVISIONS, THREE CAVALRY DIVISIONS, AND TWO ARMY CORPS HEAD- 
QUARTERS STAFFS. 



Infantry 
Material. \ division ; 

(1) 


For 7 
infantry 
divisions. 

(2) 


Cavalry 

division. 

(3) 


For 3 

cavalry 
divisions. 

(i) 


Two army corps head- 
quarters staffs. 

(5) 


Total of 
columns 
2, 4, and 5. 

(6) 


Rifles 1 12,000 


84,000 






This establishment 
must be drawn from 
the increased arma- 
ments of the divi- 
sional infantry. 


84,0)0 

18,0)0 

792 


6,000 
12 


IS, 000 
36 


Heavy machine, guns 108 

Light machine guns i 162 


756 

1,134 

63 

189 
168 
84 






63 








189 




12 


36 


204 




84 










Table No. III. 

MAXIMUM STOCKS AUTHORISED. 



Rifles 

Carbines 

Heavy machine guns . . . 

Light machine guns 

Medium trench mortars 
Light trench mortars... 
Field artillery: 

7.7 cm. guns 

10.5 cm. howitzers.. 



Maxi- 
mum 
number 
of Arms 
author- 
ised. 



s- 1,000 

18, 000 

792 

1,134 

63 



Estab- 
lishment, 
per unit. 



Rounds. 

400 

8,000 

400 



Maxi- 
mum, 
totals. 



Rounds. 

40, 800, 000 

15, 408, 000 

25,200 

151,200 

204,000 
67,200 



Section II. 
NAVAL CLAUSES. 



Article 181. 



After the expiration of a period of two months from the coming 
into force of the present Treaty the German naval forces in commis- 
sion must not exceed : 

6 battleships of the Deutschland or Lothringen type, 
6 light cruisers, 

12 destroyers, 

12 torpedo boats, 
or an equal number of ships constructed to replace them as provided 
in Article 190. 

No submarines are to be included. 

All other warships, except where there is provision to the con- 
trary in the present Treaty, must be placed in reserve or devoted to 
commercial purposes. 



TREATY OF PEA IE WITH GERMANY. 21 

Article 182. 

Until the completion of the minesweeping prescribed by Article 
193 Germany will keep in commission such number of minesweeping 
vessels as may be fixed by the Governments of the Principal Allied 
and Associated Powers. 

Article 183. 

After the expiration of a period of two months from the coming 
into force of the present Treaty the total personnel of the German 
Navy, including the manning of the fleet, coast defences, signal sta- 
tions, administration and other land services, must not exceed fifteen 
thousand, including officers and men of all grades and corps. 

The total strength of officers and warrant officers must not exceed 
fifteen hundred. 

Within two months from the coming into force of the present 
Treaty the personnel in excess of the above strength shall be de- 
mobilized. 

No naval or military corps or reserve force in connection with the 
Navy may be organised in Germany without being included in the 
above strength. 

Article 184. 

From the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty all the 
German surface warships which are not in German ports cease to 
belong to Germany, who renounces all rights over them. 

Vessels which, in compliance with the Armistice of November 11, 
1918, are now interned in the ports of the Allied and Associated 
Powers are declared to be finally surrendered. 

Vessels which are now interned in neutral ports will be there sur- 
rendered to the Governments of the Principal Allied and Associated. 
Powers. The German Government must address a notification tn> 
that effect to the neutral Powers on the coming into force of the 
present Treaty. 

Article 185. 

Within a period of two months from the coming into force of the 
present Treaty the German surface warships enumerated below will 
be surrendered to the Governments of the Principal Allied and Asso- 
ciated Powers in such Allied ports as the said Powers may direct. 

These warships will have been disarmed as provided in Article 
XXIII of the Armistice of November 11, 1918. Nevertheless they 
must have all their jmns on board. 



battleships. 

Oldenburg. Posen. 

T h ui 'ing en . Wes tfa len . 

Ostftiesland. Rheinland. 

Helgoland. Nassau. 



22 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

LIGHT CRUISERS. 

Stettin. Stralsund. 

Danzig. Augsburg. 

Milnchcn. Kolberg. 

Lubec'k. Stuttgart. 

and, in addition, forty-two modern destroyers and fifty modern 
torpedo boats, as chosen by the Governments of the Principal Allied 
and Associated Powers. 

Article 18G. 

On the coming into force of the present Treaty the German Govern- 
ment must undertake, under the supervision of the Governments of 
the Principal Allied and Associated Powers, the breaking-up of all 
the German surface Avarships now under construction. 

Article 187. 

The German auxiliary cruisers and fleet auxiliaries enumerated 
below will be disarmed and treated as merchant ships. 

INTERRED IN NEUTRAL COUNTRIES: 



Berlin. 


Seydlitz. 


Santa Fe. 


Yorck. 




IN GERMANY: 


Amnion. 


Fiirsi Billow. 


Answald. 


Gertrud. 


Bosnia. 


Kigoma. 


Cordoba. 


Rugia. 


Cassel. 


Santa Elena. 


Dania. 


Schleswig. 


Rio Negro. 


M'owe. 


Rio Pardo. 


Sierra Ventana. 


Santa Cruz. 


Chemnitz. 


Schwab en. 


Emit Georg von Strauss. 


Soling en. 


Habsburg. 


Steigerwald. 


Meteor. 


Franken. 


Waltraute. 


Gundomar. 


Scharnhorst. 




Article 188. 



On the expiration of one month from the coming into force of the 
present Treaty all German submarines, submarine salvage vessels 
and docks for submarines, including the tubular dock, must have been 
handed over to the Governments of the Principal Allied and Associ- 
ated Powers. 

Such of these submarines, vessels and clocks as are considered by 
the said Governments to be fit to proceed under their own power or 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 23 

to be towed shall be taken by the German Government into such 
Allied ports as have been indicated. 

The remainder, and also those in course of construction, shall be 
broken up entirely by the German Government under the supervision 
of the said Governments. The breaking-up must be completed 
within three months at the most after the coming into force of the 
present Treaty. 

Article 189. 

Articles, machinery and material arising from the breaking-up 
of German warships of all kinds, whether surface vessels or sub- 
marines, may not be used except for purely industrial or commercial 
purposes. 

They may not be sold or disposed of to foreign countries. 

Article 190. 

Germany is forbidden to construct or acquire any warships other 
than those intended to replace the units in commission provided for 
in Article 181 of the present Treaty. 

The warships intended for replacement purposes as above shall 
not exceed the following displacement : 

Armoured ships 10,000 tons, 

Light cruisers 6,000 tons, 

Destroyers 800 tons, 

Torpedo boats 200 tons. 

Except where a ship has been lost, units of the different classes 
shall only be replaced at the end of a period of twenty years in the 
case of battleships and cruisers, and fifteen years in the case of de- 
stroyers and torpedo boats, counting from the launching of the ship. 

Article 191. 

The construction or acquisition of anj^ submarine, even for com- 
mercial purposes, shall be forbidden in Germany. 

Article 192. 

The warships in commission of the German fleet must have on 
board or in reserve only the allowance of arms, munitions and war 
material fixed by the Principal Allied and Associated Powers. 

Within a month from the fixing of the quantities as above, arms, 
munitions and war material of all kinds, including mines and tor- 
pedoes, now in the hands of the German Government and in excess 
of the said quantities, shall be surrendered to the Governments of 
the said Powers at places to be indicated by them. Such arms, muni- 
tions and war material will be destroyed or rendered useless. 

All other stocks, depots or reserves of arms, munitions or naval 
war material of all kinds are forbidden. 

The manufacture of these articles in German territory for, and their 
export to, foreign countries shall be forbidden. 



24 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

Article 193. 

On the coming into force of the present Treaty Germany will forth- 
with sweep up the mines in the following areas in the North Sea to 
the eastward of longitude 4° 00' E. of Greenwich : 

(1) Between parallels of latitude 53° 00' N. and 59° 00' N. ; (2) To 
the northward of latitude 60° 30' N. 

Germany must keep these areas free from mines. 

Germany must also sweep and keep free from mines such areas in 
the Baltic as may ultimately be notified by the Governments of the 
Principal Allied and Associated Powers. 

Article 194. 

The personnel of the German Navy shall be recruited entirely by 
voluntary engagements entered into for a minimum period of twenty- 
five consecutive years for officers and warrant officers ; twelve consecu- 
tive years for petty officers and men. 

The number engaged to replace those discharged for any reason 
before the expiration of their term of service must not exceed five 
per cent, per annum of the totals laid down in this Section (Article 
183). 

The personnel discharged from the Navy must not receive any 
kind of naval or military training or undertake any further service 
in the Navy or Army. 

Officers belonging to the German Navy and not demobilised must 
engage to serve till the age of forty-five, unless discharged for 
sufficient reasons. 

No officer or man of the German mercantile marine shall receive 
any training in the Navy. 

Article 195. 

In order to ensure free passage into the Baltic to all nations, Ger- 
manv shall not erect any fortifications in the area comprised between 
latitudes 55° 27' N. and 54° 00' N. and longitudes 9° 00' E. and 16° 00' 
E. of the meridian of Greenwich, nor instal any guns commanding 
the maritime routes between the North Sea and the Baltic. The 
fortifications now existing in this area shall be demolished and the 
guns removed under the supervisions of the Allied Governments 
and in periods to be fixed by them. 

The German Government shall place at the disposal of the Gov- 
ernments of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers all hydro- 
graphical information now in its possession concerning the channels 
and adjoining waters between the Baltic and the North Sea. 

Article 196. 

All fortified works and fortifications, other than those men- 
tioned in Section XIII (Heligoland) of Part III (Political Clauses 
for Europe) and in Article 195, now established within fifty kilo- 
metres of the German coast or on German islands off that coast shall 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 25 

be considered as of a defensive nature and may remain in their 
existing condition. 

No new fortifications shall be constructed within these limits. 
The armament of these defences shall not exceed, as regards the num- 
ber and calibre of guns, those in position at the date of the coming 
into force of the present Treaty. The German Government shall 
communicate forthwith particulars thereof to all the European 
Governments. 

On the expiration of a period of two months from the coming into 
force of the present Treaty the stocks of ammunition for these guns 
shall be reduced to and maintained at a maximum figure of fifteen 
hundred rounds per piece for calibres of 4.1-inch and under, and five 
hundred rounds per piece for higher calibres. 

Article 197. 

During the three months following the coming into force of the 
present Treaty the German high-power wireless telegraphy stations 
at Nauen, Hanover and Berlin shall not be used for the transmission 
of messages concerning naval, military or political questions of in- 
terest to Germany or any State which has been allied to Germany in 
the Avar, without the assent of the Governments of the Principal Allied 
and Associated Powers. These stations may be used for commercial 
purposes, but only under the supervision of the said Governments, 
who will decide the wave-length to be used. 

During the same period Germany shall not build any more high- 
power wireless telegraphy stations in her own territory or that of 
Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria or Turkey. 



Section III. 
AIR CLAUSES. 

Article 198. 

The armed forces of Germany must not include any military or 
naval air forces. 

Germany may, during a period not extending beyond October 1, 
1919, maintain a maximum number of one hundred seaplanes or 
flying boats, which shall be exclusively employed in searching for 
submarine mines, shall be furnished with the necessary equipment 
for this purpose, and shall in no case carry arms, munitions or 
bombs of any nature whatever. 

In addition to the engines installed in the seaplanes or flying 
boats above mentioned, one spare engine may be provided for each 
engine of each of these craft. 

No dirigible shall be kept. 

Article 199. 

Within two months from the coming into force of the present 
Treaty the personnel of air forces on the rolls of the German land 



26 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

and sea forces shall be demobilised. Up to October 1, 1919, however, 
Germany may keep and maintain a total number of one thousand 
men, including officers, for the whole of the cadres and personnel, 
flying and non-flying, of all formations and establishments. 

Article 200. 

Until the complete evacuation of German territory by the Allied 
and Associated troops, the aircraft of the Allied and Associated 
Powers shall enjoy in Germany freedom of passage through the 
air, freedom of transit and of landing. 

Article 201. 

During the six months following the coming into force of the 
present Treaty, the manufacture and importation of aircraft, parts 
of aircraft, engines for aircraft, and parts of engines for aircraft, 
shall be forbidden in all German territory. 

Article 202. 

,On the coining into force of the present Treaty, all military and 
naval aeronautical material, except the machines mentioned in the 
second and third paragraphs of Article 198, must be delivered to the 
Governments of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers. 

Delivery must be effected at such places as the said Governments 
may select, and must be completed within three months. 

In particular, this material will include all items under the follow- 
ing heads which are or have been in use or were designed for warlike 
purposes : 

Complete aeroplanes and seaplanes, as well as those being manu- 
factured, repaired or assembled. 

Dirigibles able to take the air, being manufactured, repaired or 
assembled. 

Plant for the manufacture of hydrogen. 

Dirigible sheds and shelters of every kind for aircraft. 

Pending their delivery, dirigibles will, at the expense of Germany, 
be maintained inflated with hydrogen ; the plant for the manufacture 
of hydrogen, as well as the sheds for dirigibles, may, at the discretion 
of the said Powers, be left to Germany until the time when the dirigi- 
bles are handed over. 

Engines for aircraft. 

Nacelles and fuselages. 

Armament (guns, machine guns, light machine guns, bomb-drop- 
ping apparatus, torpedo-dropping apparatus, synchronization ap- 
paratus, aiming apparatus). 

Munitions (cartridges, shells, bombs loaded or unloaded, stocks of 
explosives or of material for their manufacture). 

Instruments for use on aircraft. 

Wireless apparatus and photographic or cinematograph apparatus 
for use on aircraft. 

Component parts of any of the items under the preceding heads. 

The material referred to above shall not be removed without spe- 
cial permission from the said Governments. 



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Section IV. 

INTEB-ALLIED COMMISSIONS OF CONTKOL. 

Article 203. 

All the military, naval and air clauses contained in the present 
Treaty, for the execution of which a time-limit is prescribed, shall be 
executed by Germany under the control of Inter- Allied Commissions 
specially appointed for this purpose by the Principal Allied and As- 
sociated Powers. 

Article 204. 

The Inter-Allied Commissions of Control will be specially charged 
with the duty of seeing to the complete execution of the delivery, 
destruction, demolition and rendering things useless to be carried 
out at the expense of the German Government in accordance with the 
present Treaty. 

They will communicate to the German authorities Jie decisions 
which the Principal Allied and Associated Powers have reserved the 
right to take, or which the execution of the military, naval and air 
clauses may necessitate. 

Article 205. 

The Inter-Allied Commissions of Control may establish their or- 
ganisations at the seat of the central German Government. 

They shall be entitled as often as they think desirable to proceed to 
any point whatever in German territory, or to send sub-commissions, 
or to authorize one or more of their members to go, to any such point. 

Article 206. 

The German Government must give all necessary facilities for 
the accomplishment of their missions to the Inter-Allied Commis- 
sions of Control and to their members. 

It shall attach a qualified representative to each Inter-Allied Com- 
mission of Control for the purpose of receiving the communications 
which the Commission may have to address to the German Govern- 
ment and of supplying or procuring for the Commission all in- 
formation or documents which may be required. 

The German Government must in all cases furnish at its own 
cost all labour and material required to effect the deliveries and 
the works of destruction, dismantling, demolition, and of rendering 
things useless, provided for in the present Treaty. 

Article 207. 

The upkeep and cost of the Commissions of Control and the ex- 
penses involved by their work shall be borne by Germany. 

Article 208. 

The Military Inter-Allied Commission of Control will represent 
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28 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

in dealing with the German Government in all matters concerning 
the execution of the military clauses. 

In particular it will be its duty to receive from the German Gov- 
ernment the notifications relating to the location of the stocks and 
depots of munitions, the armament of the fortified works, fortresses 
and forts which Germany is' allowed to retain, and the location of the 
works or factories for the production of arms, munitions and war 
material and their operations. 

It will take deliver of the arms, munitions and war material, will 
select the points where such delivery is to be effected, and will super- 
vise the works of destruction, demolition, and of rendering things 
useless, which are to be carried out in accordance with the present 
Treaty. 

The German Government must furnish to the Military Inter- 
Allied Commission of Control all such information and documents 
as the latter may deem necessary to ensure the complete execution of 
the military clauses, and in particular all legislative and administra- 
tive documents and regulations. 

Article 209. 

The Naval Inter- Allied Commission of Control will represent the 
Governments of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers in 
dealing with the German Government in all matters concerning the 
execution of the naval clauses. 

In particular it will be its duty to proceed to the building yards 
and to supervise the breaking-up of the ships which are under 
construction there, to take delivery of all surface ships or sub- 
marines, salvage ships, docks and the tubular docks, and to supervise 
the destruction and breaking-up provided for. 

The German Government must furnish to the Naval Inter- Allied 
Commission of Control all such information and documents as the 
Commission may deem necessary to ensure the complete execution 
of the naval clauses, in particular the designs of the warships, the 
composition of their armaments, the details and models of the guns, 
munitions, torpedoes, mines, explosives, wireless telegraphic appa- 
ratus and, in general, everything relating to naval war material, as 
well as al] legislative or administrative documents or regulations. 

Article 210. 

The Aeronautical Inter- Allied Commission of Control will repre- 
sent the Governments of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers 
in dealing with the German Government in all matters concerning 
the execution of the air clauses. 

In particular it will be its duty to make an inventory of the 
aeronautical material existing in German territory, to inspect aero- 
plane, balloon and motor manufactories, and factories producing 
arms, munitions and explosives capable of being used by aircraft, to 
visit all aerodromes, sheds, landing grounds, parks and depots, to 
authorise, where necessary, a removal of material and to take delivery 
of such material. 

The German Government must furnish to the Aeronautical Inter- 
Allied Commission of Control all such information and legislative, 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 29 

administrative or other documents which the Commission may con- 
sider necessary to ensure the complete execution of the air clauses, and 
in particular a list of the personnel belonging to all the German Air 
Services, and of the existing material, as well as of that in process 
of manufacture or on order, and a list of all establishments working 
for aviation, of their positions, and of all sheds and landing grounds. 



Section V. 
GENEEAL ARTICLES. 

Article 211. 

After the expiration of a period of three months from the coming 
into force of the present Treaty, the German laws must have been 
modified and shall be maintained by the German Government in 
conformity with this Part of the present Treaty. 

Within the same period all the administrative or other measures 
relating to the execution of this Part of the Treaty must have been 
taken. 

Article 212. 

The following portions of the Armistice of November 11, 1918: 
Article VI, the first two and the sixth and seventh paragraphs of 
Article VII; Article IX; Clauses I, II and V of Annex n° 2, and 
the Protocol, dated April 4, 1919, supplementing the Armistice of 
November 11, 1918, remain in force so far as they are not inconsistent 
with the above stipulations. 

Article 213. 

So long as the present Treaty remains in force, Germany under- 
takes to give every facility for any investigation which the Council 
of the League of Nations, acting if need be by a majority vote, may 
consider necessary. 

PART VI. 
PRISONERS OF WAR AND GRAVES. 

Section I. 
PRISONERS OF WAR, 

Article 214. 

The repatriation of prisoners of war and interned civilians shall 
take place as soon as possible after the coming into force of the 
present Treaty and shall be carried out with the greatest rapidity. 



30 TEE AT Y OF PEACE WITH GEKMANY. 

Article 215. 

The repatriation of German prisoners of war and interned civilians 
shall, in accordance with Article 214, be carried out by a Commission 
composed of representatives of the Allied and Associated Powers on 
the one part and of the German Government on the other part. 

For each of the Allied and Associated Powers a Sub-Commission,, 
composed exclusively of Representatives of the interested Power and 
of Delegates of the German Government, shall regulate the details of 
carrying into effect the repatriation of the prisoners of war. 

Article 216. 

From the time of their delivery into the hands of the German 
authorities the prisoners of war and interned civilians are to be re- 
turned without delay to their homes by the said authorities. 

Those amongst them who before the war were habitually resident 
in territory occupied by the troops of the Allied and Associated 
Powers are likewise to be sent to their homes, subject to the consent 
and control of the military authorities of the Allied and Associated 
armies of occupation. 

Article 217. 

The whole cost of repatriation from the moment of starting shall be 
borne by the German Government who shall also provide the land 
and sea transport and staff considered necessary by the Commission 
referred to in Article 215. 

Article 218. 

Prisoners of Avar and interned civilians awaiting disposal or un- 
dergoing sentence for offences against discipline shall be repatriated 
irrespective of the completion of their sentence or of the proceedings 
pending against them. 

This stipulation shall not apply to prisoners, of war and interned 
civilians punished for offences committed subsequent to May 1, 1019. 

During the period pending their repatriation all prisoners of war 
and interned civilians shall remain subject to the existing regula- 
tions, more especially as regards work and discipline. 

Article 219. 

Prisoners of war and interned civilians who are awaiting disposal 
or undergoing sentence for offences other than those against dis- 
cipline may be detained. 

Article 220. 

The German Government undertakes to admit to its territory 
without distinction all persons liable to repatriation. 

Prisoners of war or other German nationals who do not desire 
to be repatriated may be excluded from repatriation ; but the Allied 
and Associated Governments reserve to themselves the right either 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 31 

to repatriate them or to take them to a neutral country or to allow 
them to reside in their own territories. 

The German Government undertakes not to institute any excep- 
tional proceedings against these persons or their families nor to 
take any repressive or vexatious measures of any kind whatsoever 
against them on this account. 

Article 221. 

The Allied and Associated Governments reserve the right to make 
the repatriation of German prisoners of war or German nationals 
in their hands conditional upon the immediate notification and release 
by the German Government of any prisoners of war who are nationals 
of the Allied and Associated Powers and may still be in Germany. 

Article 222. 

Germany undertakes : 

(1) To give every facility to Commissions to enquire into the cases 
of those who cannot be traced ; to furnish such Commissions with all 
necessary means of transport ; to allow them access to camps, prisons, 
hospitals and all other places; and to place at their disposal all 
documents, whether public or private, which would facilitate their 
enquiries ; 

(2) To impose penalties upon any German officials or private per- 
sons who have concealed the presence of any nationals of any of the 
Allied and Associated Powers or have neglected to reveal the pres- 
ence of any such after it had come to their knowledge. 

Article 223. 

Germany undertakes to restore without delay from the date of the 
coming into force of the present Treaty all articles, money, securi- 
ties and documents which have belonged to nationals of the Allied 
and Associated Powers and which have been retained by the German 
authorities. 

Article 224. 

The High Contracting Parties waive reciprocally all repayment 
of sums due for the maintenance of prisoners of war in their respec- 
tive territories. 

Section II. 
GRAVES. 

Article 225. 

The Allied and Associated Governments and the German Govern- 
ment will cause to be respected and maintained the graves of the 
soldiers and sailors buried in their respective territories. 

They agree to recognise any Commission appointed by an Allied 
or Associated Government for the purpose of identifying, registering. 



32 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

caring for or erecting suitable memorials over the said graves and to 
facilitate the discharge of its duties. 

Furthermore they agree to afford, so far as the provisions of their 
laws and the requirements of public health allow, every facility for 
giving effect to requests that the bodies of their soldiers and sailors 
may be transferred to their own country. 

Article 226. 

The graves of prisoners of war and interned civilians who are 
nationals of the different belligerent States and have died in captivity 
shall be properly maintained in accordance with Article 225 of the 
present Treaty. 

The Allied and Associated Governments on the one part and the 
German Government on the other part reciprocally undertake also 
to furnish to each other: 

(1) A complete list of those who have died, together with all in- 
formation useful for identification; 

(2) All information as to the number and position of the graves 
of all those who have been buried without identification. 

PAET VIII. 
BEPARATION. 

Section I. 

GENERAL PROVISIONS. 

Article 231. 

The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany ac- 
cepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the 
loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments 
and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war 
imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies. 

Article 232. 

The Allied and Associated Governments recognize that the re- 
sources of Germany are not adequate, after taking into account per- 
manent diminutions of such resources which will result from other 
provisions of the present Treaty, to make complete reparation for 
all such loss and damage. 

The Allied and Associated Governments, however, require, and 
Germany undertakes, that she will make compensation for all dam- 
age done to the civilian population of the Allied and Associated 
Powers and to their property during the period of the belligerency 
of each as an Allied or Associated Power against Germany by such 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 33 

aggression by land, by sea and from the air, and in general all dam- 
age as defined in Annex I hereto. 

In accordance with Germany's pledges, already given, as to com- 
plete restoration for Belgium, Germany undertakes, in addition to 
the compensation for damage elsewhere in this Part provided for, 
as a consequence of the violation of the Treaty of 1839, to make re- 
imbursement of all sums which Belgium has borrowed from the 
Allied and Associated Governments up to November 11, 1918, to- 
gether with interest at the rate of five per cent. (5%) per annum 
on such sums. This amount shall be determined by the Reparation 
Commission, and the German Government undertakes thereupon 
forthwith to make a special issue of bearer bonds to an equivalent 
amount payable in marks gold, on May 1, 1926, or, at the option 
of the German Government, on the 1st of May in any year up to 
1926. Subject to the foregoing, the form of such bonds shall be 
determined by the Reparation Commission. Such bonds shall be 
handed over to the Reparation Commission, which has authority to 
take and acknowledge receipt thereof on behalf of Belgium. 

Article 233. 

The amount of the above damage for which compensation is to be 
made by Germany shall be determined by an Inter-Allied Commis- 
sion, to be called the Reparation Commission and constituted in the 
form and with the powers set forth hereunder and in Annexes II to 
VII inclusive hereto. 

This Commission shall consider the claims and give to the Ger- 
man Government a just opportunity to be heard. 

The findings of the Commission as to the amount of damage de- 
fined as above shall be concluded and notified to the German Gov- 
ernment on or before May 1, 1921, as representing the extent of that 
Government's obligations. 

The Commission shall concurrently draw up a schedule of pay- 
ments prescribing the time and manner for securing and discharg- 
ing the entire obligation within a period of thirty years from May 
1, 1921. If, however, within the period mentioned, Germany fails 
to discharge her obligations, any balance remaining unpaid may, 
within the discretion of the Commission, be postponed for settle- 
ment in subsequent years, or may be handled otherwise in such man- 
ner as the Allied and Associated Governments, acting in accordance 
with the procedure laid down in this Part of the present Treaty, 
shall determine. 

Article 234. 

The Reparation Commission shall after May 1, 1921, from time to 
time, consider the resources and capacity of German} 7 , and, after 
giving her representatives a just opportunity to be heard, shall have 
discretion to extend the date, and to modify the form of payments, 
such as are to be provided for in accordance with Article 233; but 
not to cancel any part, except with the specific authority of the 
several Governments represented upon the Commission. 

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34 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

Article 235. 

In order to enable the Allied and Associated Powers to proceed 
at once to the restoration of their industrial and economic life, pend- 
ing the full determination of their claims, Germany shall pay in 
such instalments and in such manner (whether in gold, commodities, 
ships, securities or otherwise) as the Reparation Commission may 
fix, during 1919, 1920 and the first four months of 1921, the equiva- 
lent of 20,000,000,000 gold marks. Out of this sum the expenses of 
the armies of occupation subsequent to the Armistice of November 
11, 1918, shall first be met, and such supplies of food and raw ma- 
terials as may be judged by the Governments of the Principal Allied 
and Associated Powers to be essential to enable Germany to meet 
her obligations for reparation may also, with the approval of the 
said Governments, be paid for out of the above sum. The balance 
shall be reckoned towards liquidation of the amounts due for repa- 
ration. Germany shall further deposit bonds as prescribed in para- 
graph 12 (c) of Annex II hereto. 

Article 236. 

Germany further agrees to the direct application of her economic 
resources to reparation as specified in Annexes, III, IV, V, and VI, 
relating respectively to merchant shipping, to physical restoration, to 
coal and derivatives of coal, and to dyestuffs and other chemical prod- 
ucts ; provided always that the value of the property transferred and 
any services rendered by her under these Annexes, assessed in the 
manner therein prescribed, shall be credited to her towards liquida- 
tion of her obligations under the above Articles. 

Article 237. 

The successive instalments, including the above sum, paid over by 
Germany in satisfaction of the above claims will be divided by the 
Allied and Associated Governments in proportions which have been 
determined upon by them in advance on a basis of general equity 
and of the rights of each. 

For the purposes of this division the value of property transferred 
and services rendered under Article 243, and under Annexes III, IV, 
V, VI, and VII, shall be reckoned in the same manner as cash pay- 
ments effected in that year. 

Article 238. 

In addition to the payments mentioned above Germany shall effect, 
in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Reparation Com- 
mission, restitution in cash of cash taken away, seized or sequestrated, 
and also restitution of animals, objects of every nature and securities 
taken away, seized or sequestrated, in the cases in which it proves 
possible to' identify them in territory belonging to Germany or her 
allies. 

Until this procedure is laid down, restitution will continue in ac- 
cordance with the provisions of the Armistice of November 11, 1918, 
and its renewals and the Protocols thereto. 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 35 

Article 239. 

The German Government undertakes to make forthwith the resti- 
tution contemplated by Article 238 and to make the payments and de- 
liveries contemplated by Articles 233, 234, 235 and 236. 

Article 240. 

The German Government recognizes the Commission provided for 
by Article 233 as the same may be constituted by the Allied and As- 
sociated Governments in accordance with Annex II, and agrees ir- 
revocably to the possession and exercise by such Commission of the 
power and authority given to it under the present Treaty. 

The German Government will supply to the Commission all the 
information which the Commission may require relative to the finan- 
cial situation and operations and to the property, productive capacity, 
and stocks and current production of raw materials and manufac- 
tured articles of Germany and her nationals, and further any infor- 
mation relative to military operations which in the judgment of the 
Commission may be necessary for the assessment of Germany's lia- 
bility for reparation as defined in Annex I. 

The German Government will accord to the members of the Com- 
mission and its authorised agents the same rights and immunities as 
are enjoyed in Germany by duly accredited diplomatic agents of 
friendly Powers. 

Germany further agrees to provide for the salaries and expenses 
of the Commission and of such staff as it may employ. 

Article 241. 

Germany undertakes to pass, issue and maintain in force any legis- 
lation, orders and decrees that may be necessary to give complete 
effect to these provisions. 

Article 242. 

The provisions of this Part of the present Treaty do not apply 
to the property, rights and interests referred to in Sections III and 
IV of Part X (Economic Clauses) of the present Treaty, nor to the 
product of their liquidation, except so far as concerns any final 
balance in favour of Germany under Article 243 (a). 

Article 243. 

The following shall be reckoned as credits to Germany in respect 
of her reparation obligations:' 

(a) Any final balance in favour of Germany under Section V 
(Alsace-Lorraine) of Part III (Political Clauses for Europe) and 
Sections III and IV of Part X (Economic Clauses) of the present 
Treaty; 

{h) Amounts due to Germany in respect of transfers under Sec- 
lion IV (Saar Basin) of Part III (Political Clauses for Europe). 
Part IX (Financial Clauses), and Part XII (Ports, Waterways and 
Railways) ; 



36 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

(c) Amounts which in the judgment of the Reparation Commis- 
sion should be credited to Germany on account of any other transfers 
under the present Treaty of property, rights, concessions or other 
interests. 

In no case however shall credit be given for property restored in 
accordance with Article 238 of the present Part. 

Article 244. 

The transfer of the German submarine cables which do not form 
the subject of particular provisions of the present Treaty is regu- 
lated by Annex VII hereto. 

ANNEX I. 

Compensation may be claimed from Germany under Article 232 
above in respect of the total damage under the following categories : 

(1) Damage to injured persons and to surviving dependents by 
personal injury to or death of civilians caused by acts of war, in- 
cluding bombardments or other attacks on land, on sea, or from the 
air, and all the direct consequences thereof, and of all operations of 
war by the two groups of belligerents wherever arising. 

(2) Damage caused by Germany or her allies to civilian victims 
of acts of cruelty, violence or maltreatment (including injuries to 
life or health as a consequence of imprisonment, deportation, intern- 
ment or evacuation, of exposure at sea or of being forced to labour) , 
wherever arising, and to the surviving dependents of such victims. 

(3) Damage caused by Germany or her allies in their own terri- 
tory or in occupied or invaded territory to civilian victims of all acts 
injurious to health or capacity to work, or to honour, as well as to 
the surviving dependents of such victims. 

(4) Damage caused by any kind of maltreatment of prisoners of 
war. 

(5) As damage caused to the peoples of the Allied and Associated 
Powers, all pensions and compensation in the nature of pensions to 
naval and military victims of war (including members of the air 
force), whether mutilated, wounded, sick or invalided, and to the 
dependents of such victims, the amount due to the xlllied and Asso- 
ciated Governments being calculated for each of them as being the 
capitalised cost of such pensions and compensation at the date of 
the coming into force of the present Treaty on the basis of the scales 
in force in France at such date. 

(6) The cost of assistance by the Government of the Allied and 
Associated Powers to prisoners of war and to their families and 
dependents. 

(7) Allowances by the Governments of the Allied and Associated 
Powers to the families and dependents of mobilised persons or 
persons serving with the forces, the amount due to them for each 
calendar year in which hostilities occurred being calculated for each 
Government on the basis of the average scale for such payments in 
force in France during that year. 

(8) Damage caused to civilians by being forced by Germany or 
her allies to labour without just remuneration. 



TKEATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 37 

(9) Damage in respect of all property wherever situated belonging 
to any of the Allied or Associated States or their nationals, with the 
exception of naval and military works or materials, which has been 
carried off, seized, injured or destroyed by the acts of Germany or 
her allies on land, on sea or from the air, or damage directly in con- 
sequence of hostilities or of any operations of war. 

(10) Damage in the form of levies, fines and other similar exac- 
tions imposed by Germany or her allies upon the civilian population. 



ANNEX II. 
1. 

The Commission referred to in Article 233 shall be called "The 
Reparation Commission" and is hereinafter referred to as "the 
Commission". 



Delegates to this Commission shall be nominated by the United 
States of America, Great Britain, France, v Italy, Japan, Belgium 
and the Serb-Croat-Slovene State. Each of these Powers will ap- 
point one Delegate and also one Assistant Delegate, who will take 
his place in case of illness or necessary absence, but at other times 
will only have the right to be present at proceedings without taking 
any part therein. 

On no occasion shall the Delegates of more than five of the above 
Powers have the right to take part in the proceedings of the Com- 
mission and to record their votes. The Delegates of the United 
States, Great Britain, France and Italy shall have this right on all 
occasions. The Delegate of Belgium shall have this right on all 
occasions other than those referred to below. The Delegate of Japan 
shall have this right on occasions when questions relating to dam- 
age at sea, and questions arising under Article 260 of Part IX (Fi- 
nancial Clauses) in which Japanese interests are concerned, are 
under consideration. The Delegate of the Serb-Croat-Slovene State 
shall have this right when questions relating to Austria, Hungary 
or Bulgaria are under consideration. 

Each Government represented on the Commission shall have the 
right to withdraw therefrom upon twelve months notice filed with 
the Commission and confirmed in the course of the sixth month 
after the date of the original notice. 

3. 

Such of the other Allied and Associated Powers as may be in- 
terested shall have the right to appoint a Delegate to be present and 
act as Assessor only while their respective claims and interests are 
under examination or discussion, but without the right to vote. 



In case of the death, resignation or recall of any Delegate, Assist- 
ant Delegate or Assessor, a successor to him shail be nominated as 
soon as possible. 



38 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

5. 

The Commission will have its principal permanent Bureau in 
Paris and will hold its first meeting in Paris as soon as practicable 
after the coming into force of the present Treaty, and thereafter 
will meet in such place or places and at such time as it may deem 
convenient and as may be necessary for the most expeditious dis- 
charge of its duties. 



At its first meeting the Commission shall elect, from among the 
Delegates referred to above, a Chairman and a Vice-Chairman, who 
shall hold office for one year and shall be eligible for re-election. If 
a vacancy in the Chairmanship or Vice-Chairmanship should occur 
during the annual period, the Commission shall proceed to a new 
election for the remainder of the said period. 

7. 

The Commission is authorised to appoint all necessary officers, 
agents and employees who may be required for the execution of its 
functions, and to fix their remuneration; to constitute committees, 
whose members need not necessarily be members of the Commission, 
and to take all executive steps necessary for the purpose of discharg- 
ing its duties; and to delegate authority and discretion to officers, 
agents and committees. 

All proceedings of the Commission shall be private, unless, on 
particular occasions, the Commission shall otherwise determine for 
special reasons. 

9. 

The Commission shall be required, if the German Government so 
desire, to hear, within a period which it will fix from time to time, 
evidence and arguments on the part of Germany on any question 
connected with her capacity to paj 7 . 

10. 

The Commission shall consider the claims and give to the German 
Government a just opportunity to be heard, but not to take any part 
whatever in the decisions of the Commission. The Commission shall 
afford a similar opportunity to the allies of Germany, when it shall 
consider that their interests are in question. 

11. 

The Commission shall not be bound by any particular code or rules 
of law or by any particular rule of evidence or of procedure, but 
shall be guided by justice, equity and good faith. Its decisions must 
follow the same principles and rules in all cases where they are 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 6\) 

applicable. It will establish rules relating to methods of proof of 
claims. It may act on any trustworthy modes of computation. 

12. 

The Commission shall have all the powers conferred upon it, and 
shall exercise all the functions assigned to it, by the present Treaty. 

The Commission shall in general have wide latitude as to its con- 
trol and handling of the whole reparation problem as dealt with in 
this Part of the present Treaty and shall have authority to interpret 
its provisions. Subject to the provisions of the present Treaty, the 
Commission is constituted by the several Allied and Associated Gov- 
ernments referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 above as the exclusive 
agency of the said Governments respectively for receiving, selling, 
holding, and distributing the reparation payments to be made by 
Germany under this Part of the present Treaty. The Commission 
must comply with the following conditions and provisions : 

a) Whatever part of the full amount of the proved claims is not 
paid in gold, or in ships, securities and commodities or otherwise, 
Germany shall be required, under such conditions as the Commission 
may determine, to cover by way of guarantee by an equivalent issue 
of bonds, obligations or otherwise, in order to constitute an acknowl- 
edgment of the said part of the debt. 

(b) In periodically estimating Germany's capacity to pay, the 
Commission shall examine the German system of taxation, first, to 
the end that the sums for reparation which Germany is required to 
pay shall become a charge upon all her revenues prior to that for 
the service or discharge of any domestic loan, and secondly, so as to 
satisfy itself that, in general, the German scheme of taxation is fully 
as heavy proportionately as that of any of the Powers represented 
on the Commission. 

(c) In order to facilitate and continue the immediate restoration 
of the economic life of the Allied and Associated countries, the Com- 
mission will as provided in Article 235 take from Germany by way 
of security for and acknowledgment of her debt a first instalment of 
gold bearer bonds free of all taxes and charges of every description 
established or to be established by the Government of the German 
Empire or of the German States, or by any authority subject to 
them ; these bonds will be delivered on account and in three portions, 
the marks gold being payable in conformity with Article 262 of 
Part IX (Financial Clauses) of the present Treaty as follows: 

(1) To be issued forthwith, '20,000,000,000 Marks gold bearer 
bonds, payable not later than May 1, 1921, without interest. There 
shall be specially applied towards the amortisation of these bonds the 
payments which Germany is pledged to make in conformity with 
Article 235, after deduction of the sums used for the reimbursement 
of expenses of the armies of occupation and for payment of food- 
stuffs and raw materials. Such bonds as have not been redeemed by 
May 1, 1921, shall then be exchanged or new bonds of the same type 
as those provided for below (paragraph 12, <?, (2). 

(2) To be issued forthwith, further 40,000,000,000 Marks gold 
bearer bonds, bearing interest at 2i/*> per cent, per annum between 

1921 and 1926, and thereafter at 5 per cent, per annum with an add-i 



40 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

tional 1 per cent, for amortisation beginning in 1926 on the whole 
amount of the issue. 

(3) To be delivered forthwith a covering undertaking in writing 
to issue when, but not until, the Commission is satisfied that Ger- 
many can meet such interest and sinking fund obligations, a further 
instalment of 40,000,000,000 Marks gold 5 per cent, bearer bonds, the 
time and mode of payment of principal and interest to be determined 
by the Commission. 

The dates for payment of interest, the manner of applying the 
amortisation fund, and all other questions relating to the issue, man- 
agement and regulation of the bond issue shall be determined by 
the Commission from time to time. 

Further issues by way of acknowledgment and security may be 
required as the Commission subsequently determines from time to 
time. 

(d) In the event of bonds, obligations or other evidence of in- 
debtedness issued by Germany by way of security for or acknowledg- 
ment of her reparation debt being disposed of outright, not by way 
of pledge, to persons other than the several Governments in whose 
favour Germany's original reparation indebtedness was created, an 
amount of such reparation indebtedness shall be deemed to be ex- 
tinguished corresponding to the nominal value of the bonds, etc., so 
disposed of outright, and the obligation of Germany in respect of such 
bonds shall be confined to her liabilities to the holders of the bonds, 
as expressed upon their face. 

(e) The damage for repairing, reconstructing and rebuilding prop- 
erty in the invaded and devastated districts, including reinstallation 
of furniture, machinery and other equipment, will be calculated ac- 
cording to the cost at the dates when the work is done. 

(/) Decisions of the Commission relating to the total or partial 
cancellation of the capital or interest of any verified debt of Ger- 
many must be accompanied by a statement of its reasons. 

13. 

As to voting, the Commission will observe the following rules: 
When a decision of the Commission is taken, the votes of all the 
Delegates entitled to vote, or in the absence of any of them, of their 
Assistant Delegates, shall be recorded. Abstention from voting is to 
be treated as a vote against the proposal under discussion. Asses- 
sors have no vote. 

On the following questions unanimity is necessary : 
(a) Questions involving the sovereignty of any of the Allied and 
Associated Powers, or the cancellation of the whole or any part of 
the debt or obligations of Germany ; 

(&) Questions of determining the amount and conditions of bonds 
or other obligations to be issued by the German Government and of 
fixing the time and manner for selling, negotiating or distributing 
such bonds; 

(c) Any postponement, total or partial, beyond the end of 1930, of 
the payment of instalments falling due between May 1, 1921. and the 
end of 1926 inclusive; 

(d) Any postponement, total or partial, of any instalment falling 
due after 1926 for a period exceeding three years; 



TKEATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 41 

(e) Questions of applying in any particular case a method of 
measuring damages different from that which has been previously 
applied in a similar case ; 

(/) Questions of the interpretation of the provisions of this Part of 
the present Treaty. 

All other questions shall be decided by the vote of a majority. 

In case of any difference of opinion among the Delegates, which 
cannot be solved by reference to their Governments, upon the question 
whether a given case is one which requires a unanimous vote for its 
decision or not, such difference shall be referred to the immediate 
arbitration of some impartial person to be agreed upon by their 
Governments, whose award the Allied and Associated Governments 
agree to accept. 

14. 

Decisions of the Commission, in accordance with the powers con- 
ferred upon it, shall forthwith become binding and may be put into 
immediate execution without further proceedings. 

15. 

The Commission will issue to each of the interested Powers, in such 
form as the Commission shall fix : 

(1) A certificate stating that it holds for the account of the said 
Power bonds of the issues mentioned above, the said certificate, on the 
demand of the Power concerned, being divisible in a number of parts 
not exceeding five ; 

(2) From time to time certificates stating the goods delivered by 
Germany on account of her reparation debt which it holds for the 
account of the said Power. 

The said certificates shall be registered, and upon notice to the 
Commission, may be transferred by endorsement. 

When bonds are issued for sale or negotiation, and when goods 
are delivered by the Commission, certificates to an equivalent value 
must be withdrawn. 

16. 

Interest shall be debited to Germany as from May 1, 1921, in 
respect of her debt as determined by the Commission, after allowing 
for sums already covered by cash payments or their equivalent, or 
by bonds issued to the Commission, or under Article 243. The rate 
of interest shall be 5 per cent, unless the Commission shall determine 
at some future time that circumstances justify a variation of this 
rate. 

The Commission, in fixing on May 1, 1921, the total amount of the 
debt of Germany, may take account of interest due on sums arising 
out of the reparation of material damage as from November 11, 1918, 
up to May 1, 1921. 

17. 

In case of default by Germany in the performance of any obliga- 
tion under this Part of the present Treaty, the Commission will 
forthwith give notice of such default to each of the interested Powers 



42 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

and may make such recommendations as to the action to be taken in 
consequence of such default as it may think necessary. 

18. 

The measures which the Allied and Associated Powers shall have 
the right to take, in case of voluntary default by Germany, and 
which Germany agrees not to regard as acts of Avar, may include 
economic and financial prohibitions and reprisals and in general such 
other measures as the respective Governments may determine to be 
necessary in the circumstances. 

19. 

Payments required to be made in gold or its equivalent on account 
of the proved claims of the Allied and Associated Powers may at 
any time be accepted by the Commission in the form of chattels, 
properties, commodities, businesses, rights, concessions, within or 
without German territory, ships, bonds, shares or securities of any 
kind, or currencies of Germany or other States, the value of such 
substitutes for gold being fixed at a fair and just amount by the 
Commission itself. 

20. 

The Commission, in fixing or accepting payment in specified prop- 
erties or rights, shall have due regard for any legal or equitable in- 
terests of the Allied and Associated Powers or of neutral Powers 
or of their nationals therein. 

21. 

No member of the Commission shall be responsible, except to the 
Government appointing him, for any action or omission as such 
member. No one of the Allied or Associated Governments assumes 
any responsibility in respect of any other Government. 

22. 

Subject to the provisions of the present Treaty this Annex may be 
amended by the unanimous decision of the Governments represented 
from time to time upon the Commission. 

23. 

When all the amounts due from Germany and her allies under 
the present Treaty or the decisions of the Commission have been 
discharged and all sums received, or their equivalents, shall have 
been distributed to the Powers interested, the Commission shall be 
dissolved. 

ANNEX III. 

1. 

Germany recognises the right of the Allied and Associated Powers 
to the replacement, ton for ton (gross tonnage) and class for class, 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 43 

of all merchant ships and fishing boats lost or damaged owing to 
the war. 

Nevertheless, and in spite of the fact that the tonnage of German 
shipping at present in existence is much less than that lost by the 
Allied and Associated Powers in consequence of the German aggres- 
sion, the right thus recognised will be enforced on German ships and 
boats under the following conditions: 

The German Government, on behalf of themselves and so as to 
bind all other persons interested, cede to the Allied and Associated 
Governments the property in all the German merchant ships which 
are of 1,600 tons gross and upwards; in one-half, reckoned in tonnage, 
of the ships which are between 1,000 tons and 1,600 tons gross; in 
one-quarter, reckoned in tonnage, of the steam trawlers ; and in one- 
quarter, reckoned in tonnage, of the other fishing boats. 

2. 

The German Government will, within two months of the coming 
into force of the present Treaty, deliver to the Reparation Commis- 
sion all the ships and boats mentioned in paragraph 1. 



The ships and boats mentioned in paragraph 1 include all ships 
and boats which (a) fly, or may be entitled to fly, the German mer- 
chant flag; or (b) are owned by any German national, company or 
corporation or by any company or corporation belonging to a coun- 
try other than an Allied or Associated country and under the con- 
trol or direction of German nationals; or (c) are now under con- 
struction (1) in Germany, (2) in other than Allied or Associated 
countries for the account of any German national, company or cor- 
poration. 

1. 

For the purpose of providing documents of title for the ships and 
boats to be handed over as above mentioned, the German Govern- 
ment will : 

(a) Deliver to the Reparation Commission in respect of each ves- 
sel a bill of sale or other document of title evidencing the transfer 
to the Commission of the entire property in the vessel, free from all 
encumbrances, charges and liens of all kinds, as the Commission may 
require ; 

(b) Take all measures that may be indicated by the Reparation 
Commission for ensuring that the ships themselves shall be placed 
at its disposal. 

5. 

As an additional part of reparation, Germany agrees to cause 
merchant ships to be built in German yards for the account of the 
Allied and Associated Governments as follows : 

(a) Within three months of the coming into force of the present 
Treaty, the Reparation Commission will notify to the German Gov- 
ernment the amount of tonnage to be laid down in German ship- 



44 TKEATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

yards in each of the two years next succeeding the three months 
mentioned above. 

(b) Within two years of the coming into force of the present 
Treaty, the Reparation Commission will notify to the German Gov- 
ernment the amount of tonnage to be laid down in each of the three 
years following the two years mentioned above. 

(c) The amount of tonnage to be laid down in each year shall not 
exceed 200,000 tons, gross tonnage. 

(d) The specifications of the ships to be built, the conditions under 
which they are to be built and delivered, the price per ton at which 
they are to be accounted for by the Reparation Commission, and all 
other questions relating to the accounting, ordering, building and 
delivery of the ships, shall be determined by the Commission. 

Germany undertakes to restore in kind and in normal condition of 
upkeep to the Allied and Associated Powers, within two months of 
the coming into force of the present Treaty, in accordance with 
procedure to be laid down by the Reparation Commission, any boats 
and other movable appliances belonging to inland navigation which 
since August 1, 1914, have by any means whatever come into her 
possession or into the possession of her nationals, and which can be 
identified. 

With a view to make good the loss in inland navigation tonnage, 
from whatever cause arising, which has been incurred during the war 
by the Allied and Associated Powers, and which cannot be made 
good by means of the restitution prescribed above, Germany agrees 
to cede to the Reparation Commission a portion of the German river 
fleet up to the amount of the loss mentioned above, provided that 
such cession shall not exceed 20 per cent, of the river fleet as it existed 
on November 11, 1918. 

The conditions of this cession shall be settled by the arbitrators 
referred to in Article 339 of Part XII (Ports, Waterways and Rail- 
ways) of the present Treaty, who are charged with the settlement 
of difficulties relating to the apportionment of river tonnage result- 
ing from the new international regime applicable to certain river 
systems or from the territorial changes affecting those systems. 



German}^ agrees to take any measures that ma}' be indicated to 
her by the Reparation Commission for obtaining the full title to 
the property in all ships which have during the war been trans- 
ferred, or are in process of transfer, to neutral flags, without the 
consent of the Allied and Associated Governments. 

8. 

Germany waives all claims of any description against the Allied 
and Associated Governments and their nationals in respect of the 
detention, employment, loss or damage of any German ships or 
boats, exception being made of payments due in respect of the 
employment of ships in conformity with the Armistice Agreement 
of January 13, 1919, and subsequent Agreements. 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 45 

The handing over of the ships of the German mercantile marine 
must be continued without interruption in accordance with the said 
Agreement. 

9. 

Germany waives all claims to vessels or cargoes sunk by or in 
consequence of naval action- and subsequently salved, in which any 
•of the Allied or Associated Governments or their nationals may 
have any interest either as owners, charterers, insurers or otherwise, 
notwithstanding any decree of condemnation which may have been 
made by a Prize Court of Germany or of her allies. 



ANNEX IV. 



The Allied and Associated Powers require, and Germany under- 
takes, that in part satisfaction of her obligations expressed in the 
present Part she will, as hereinafter provided, devote her economic 
resources directly to the physical restoration of the invaded areas of 
the Allied and Associated Powers, to the extent that these Powers 
may determine. 

2. 

The Allied and Associated Governments may file with the Separa- 
tion Commission lists showing : 

(a) Animals, machinery, equipment, tools and like articles of a 
commercial character, which have been seized, consumed or destroyed 
by Germany or destroyed in direct consequence of military opera- 
tions, and which such Governments, for the purpose of meeting im- 
mediate and urgent needs, desire to have replaced by animals and 
articles of the same nature which are in being in German territory 
at the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty ; 

(b) Keconstruction materials (stones, bricks, refractory bricks, 
tiles, wood, window-glass, steel, lime, cement, etc.), machinery, heat- 
ing apparatus, furniture and like articles of a commercial character 
which the said Governments desire to have produced and manufac- 
tured in Germany and delivered to them to permit of the. restoration 
of the invaded areas. 



The lists relating to the articles mentioned in 2 (a) above shall be 
filed within sixty days after the date of the coming into force of the 
present Treaty. 

The lists relating to the articles in 2 (b) above shall be filed on or 
before December 31, 1919. 

The lists shall contain all such details as are customary in com- 
mercial contracts dealing with the subject matter, including speci- 
fications, dates of delivery (but not extending over more than four 
years), and places of delivery, but not price or value, which shall 
be fixed as hereinafter provided by the Commission. 



46 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 



Immediately upon the filing of such lists with the Commission, the 
Commission shall consider the amount and number of the materials 
and animals mentioned in the lists provided for above which are to 
be required of Germany. In reaching a decision on this matter 
the Commission shall take into account- such domestic requirements 
of Germany as it deems essential for the maintenance of Germany's 
social and economic life, the prices and dates at which similar 
articles can be obtained in the Allied and Associated countries as 
compared with those to be fixed for German articles, and the general 
interest of the Allied and Associated Governments that the indus- 
trial life of Germany be not so disorganised as to affect adversely the 
ability of Germany to perform the other acts of reparation stipu- 
lated 'for. 

Machinery, equipment, tools and like articles of a commercial 
character in actual industrial use are not, however, to be demanded 
of Germany unless there is no free stock of such articles respectively 
which is not in use and is available, and then not in excess of thirty 
per cent, of the quantity of such articles in use in aiw one establish- 
ment or undertaking. 

The Commission shall give representatives of the German Gov- 
ernment and opportunty and a time to be heard as to their capacity 
to furnish the said materials, articles and animals. 

The decision of the Commission shall thereupon and at the earliest 
possible moment be communicated to the German Government and 
to the several interested Allied and Associated Governments. 

The German Government undertakes to deliver the materials, 
articles and animals as specified in the said communication, and the 
interested Allied and Associated Governments severally agree to 
accept the same, provided they conform to the specification given, 
or are not, in the judgment of the Commission, unfit to be utilized 
in the work of reparation. 

5. 

The Commission shall determine the value to be attributed to the 
materials, articles and animals to be delivered in accordance with 
the foregoing, and the Allied or Associated Power receiving the 
same agrees to be charged with such value, and the amount thereof 
shall be treated as a payment by Germany to be divided in accord- 
ance with Article 237 of this Part of the present Treaty. 

In cases where the right to require physical restoration as above 
provided is exercised, the Commission shall ensure that the amount 
to be credited against the reparation obligation of Germany shall be- 
the fair value of work done or materials supplied bjr Germany, and 
that the claim made by the interested Power in respect of the damage 
so repaired by physical restoration shall be discharged to the extent 
of the proportion which the damage thus repaired bears to the whole 
of the damage thus claimed for. 



As an immediate advance on account of the animals referred to 
in paragraph 2 (a) above, Germany undertakes to deliver in equal 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 47 

monthly instalments in the three months following the coming into 
force of the present Treaty the following quantities of live stock : 

(1) To the French Government. 

500 stallions (3 to 7 years) ; 
30,000 fillies and mares (18 months to 7 years), type: Ardennais, 
Boulonnais or Belgian; 
2,000 bulls (18 months to 3 years) ; 
90,000 milch cows (2 to 6 years) ; 
1,000 rams; 
100,000 sheep; 
10,000 goats. 

(2) To the Belgian Government. 

200 stallions (3 to 7 years) , large Belgian type ; 
5,000 mares (3 to 7 years), large Belgian type; 
5,000 fillies (18 months to 3 years) , large Belgian type ; 
2,000 bulls (18 months to 3 years) ; 
50,000 milch cows (2 to 6 years) ; 
40,000 heifers; 

200 rams; 
20,000 sheep; 
15,000 sows. 

The animals delivered shall be of average health and condition. 

To the extent that animals so delivered cannot be identified as 
animals taken away or seized, the value of such animals shall be 
credited against the reparation obligations of Germany in accordance 
with paragraph 5 of this Annex. 



Without waiting for the decisions of the Commission referred to in 
paragraph 4 of this Annex to be taken, Germany must continue the 
delivery to France of the agricultural material referred to in Article 
III of the renewal dated January 16, 1919, of the Armistice. 



ANNEX V. 

1. 

Germany accords the following options for the delivery of coal and 
derivatives of coal to the undermentioned signatories of the present 
Treaty. 

2. 

Germany undertakes to deliver to France seven million tons of coal 
per year for ten years. In addition, Germany undertakes to deliver 
to France annually for a period not exceeding ten years an amount 
of coal equal to the difference between the annual production before 
the war of the coal mines of the Nord and Pas de Calais, destroyed as 



48 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

a result of the war, and the production of the mines of the same area 
during the years in question : such delivery not to exceed twenty mil- 
lion tons in any one year of the first five years, and eight million 
tons in any one year of the succeeding five years. 

It is understood that due diligence will be exercised in the restora- 
tion of the destroyed mines in the Nord and the Pas de Calais. 

3. 

Germany undertakes to deliver to Belgium eight million tons of 
coal annually for ten years. 



Germany undertakes to deliver to Italy up to the following quan- 
tities of coal : 

July 1919 to June 1920 4^ million tons, 

— 1920 — 1921 6 — 

— 1921 — 1922 7£ — 

— 1922 — 1923 8~ — 

— 1923 — 1924 1 gl 

and each of the following five years J 2 

At least two-thirds of the actual deliveries to be land-borne. 

5. 

Germany further undertakes to deliver annually to Luxemburg, 
if directed by the Reparation Commission, a quantity of coal equal 
to the pre-war annual consumption of German coal in Luxemburg. 

6. 

The prices to be paid for coal delivered under these options shall 
toe as follows : 

(a) For overland delivery, including delivery by barge, the Ger- 
man pithead price to German nationals, plus the freight to French, 
Belgian, Italian or Luxemburg frontiers, provided that the pithead 
price does not exceed the pithead price of British coal for export. In 
the case of Belgian bunker coal, the price shall not exceed the Dutch 
bunker price. 

Railroad and barge tariffs shall not be higher than the lowest simi- 
lar rates paid in Germany. 

(b) For sea delivery, the German export price f. o. b. German 
ports, or the British export price f. o. b. British ports, whichever 
may be lower. 

7. 

The Allied and Associated Governments interested may demand the 
delivery, in place of coal, of metallurgical coke in the proportion 
of 3 tons of coke to 4 tons of coal. 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 49 

8. 

Germany undertakes to deliver to France, and to transport to the 
French frontier by rail or by water, the following products, during 
each of the three years following the coming into force of this Treaty : 

Benzol 35,000 tons. 

Coal tar 50,000 tons. 

Sulphate of ammonia . 30,000 tons. 

All or part of the coal tar may, at the option of the French Govern- 
ment, be replaced by corresponding quantities of products of dis- 
tillation, such as light oils, heavy oils, anthracene, napthalene or 
pitch. 

9. 

The price paid for coke and for the articles referred to in the pre- 
ceding paragraph shall be the same as the price paid by German 
nationals under the same conditions of shipment to the French fron- 
tier or to the German ports, and shall be subject to any advantages 
which may be accorded similar products furnished to German 
nationals. 

10. 

The foregoing options shall be exercised through the intervention 
of the Reparation Commission, which, subject to the specific provi- 
sions hereof, shall have power to determine all questions relative to 
procedure and the qualities and quantities of products, the quantity 
of coke which may be substituted for coal, and the times and modes 
of delivery and payment. In giving notice to the German Govern- 
ment of the foregoing options the Commission shall give at least 120 
days' notice of deliveries to be made after January 1, 1920, and at 
least 30 days' notice of deliveries to be made between the coming 
into force of this Treaty and January 1, 1920. Until Germany has 
received the demands referred to in this paragraph, the provisions 
of the Protocol of December 25, 1918, (Execution of Article VI of 
the Armistice of November 11, 1918) remain in force. The notice 
to be given to the German Government of the exercise of the right 
of substitution accorded by paragraphs 7 and 8 shall be such as the 
Reparation Commission may consider sufficient. If the Commission 
shall determine that the full exercise of the foregoing options would 
interfere unduly with the industrial requirements of Germany, the 
Commission is authorised to postpone or to cancel deliveries, and in 
so doing to settle all questions of priority ; but the coal to replace coal 
from destroyed mines shall receive priority over other deliveries. 



ANNEX VI. 

1. 

Germany accords to the Reparation Commission an option to re- 
quire as part of reparation the delivery by Germany of such quanti- 
ties and kinds of dyestuffs and chemical drugs as the Commission 
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50 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

may designate, not exceeding 50 per cent, of the total stock of each 
and every kind of dyestuff and chemical drug in Germany or under 
German control at the date of the coming into force of the present 
Treaty. 

This option shall be exercised within sixty days of the receipt by 
the Commission of such particulars as to stocks as may be considered 
necessary by the Commission. 

2. 

Germany further accords to the Reparation Commission an option 
to require delivery during the period from the date of the coming 
into force of the present Treaty until January 1, 1920. and during 
each period of six months thereafter until January 1, 1925, of any 
specified kind of dyestuff and chemical drug up to an amount not 
exceeding 25 per cent, of the German production of such dyestuffs 
and chemical drugs during the previous six months period. If in 
any case the production during such previous six months was, in the 
opinion of the Commission, less than normal, the amount required 
may be 25 per cent, of the normal production. 

Such option shall be exercised within four weeks after the receipt 
of such particulars as to production and in such form as may be 
considered necessary by the Commission; these particulars shall 
be furnished by the German Government immediately after the 
expiration of each six months period. 

3. 

For dyestuffs and chemical drugs delivered under paragraph 1, 
the price shall be fixed by the Commission having regard to pre-war 
net export prices and to subsequent increases of cost. 

For dyestuffs and chemical drugs delivered under paragraph 2, 
the price shall be fixed by the Commission having regard to pre-war 
net export prices and subsequent variations of cost, or the lowest 
net selling price of similar dyestuffs and chemical drugs to any 
other purchaser. 

4. 

All details, including mode and times of exercising the options, 
and making delivery, and all other questions arising under this ar- 
rangement shall be determined by the Reparation Commission; the 
German Government will furnish to the Commission all necessary 
information and other assistance which it may require. 

5. 

The above expression " dyestuffs and chemical drugs " includes all 
synthetic dyes and drugs and intermediate or other products used in 
connection with dyeing, so far as they are manufactured for sale. 
The present arrangement shall also apply to cinchona bark and salts 
of quinine. 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 51 

ANNEX VII. 

Germany renounces on her own behalf and on behalf of her 
nationals in favour of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers all 
rights, titles or privileges of whatever nature in the submarine cables 
set out below, or in an} 7 portions thereof : 

Emden- Vigo : from the Straits of Dover to off Vigo ; 

Emden-Brest: from off Cherbourg to Brest; 

Emden-Teneriffe : from off Dunkirk to off Teneriffe; 

Emden- Azores (1) : from the Straits of Dover to Fayal; 

Emden-Azores (2) : from the Straits of Dover to Fayal; 

Azores-New- York (1) : from Fayal to New York; 

Azores-New-York (2) : from Fayal to the longitude of Halifax, 

Teneriffe-Monrovia : from off Teneriffe to off Monrovia; 

Monrovia-Lome : 

. , . / lat. : 2° 30' N. ; 

from about { ]ong :7 o 4(y w ' of Greenwich; 

f lat. • 2° 20' N. • 
to about 1 long> ;' 50 g ^.'of Greenwich; 

,, , , { lat. :3°48'N.; 

and from about j [ong . QO QQ% 

to Lome ; 
Lome-Duala : from Lome to Duala ; 

Monrovia-Pernambuco : from off Monrovia to off Pernambuco ; 
Constantinople-Constanza : from Constantinople to Constanza; 
Yap-Shanghai, Yap-Guam, and Yap-Menado (Celebes) : from 
Yap Island to Shanghai, from Yap Island to Guam Island, 
and from Yap Island to Menado. 
The value of the above mentioned cables or portions thereof in so 
far as they are privately owned, calculated on the basis of the original 
cost less a suitable allowance for depreciation, shall be credited to 
Germany in the reparation account. 

Section II. 
SPECIAL PROVISIONS. 

Article 245. 

Within six months after the coming into force of the present Treaty 
the German Government must restore to the French Government the 
trophies, archives, historical souvenirs or works of art carried away 
from France by the German authorities in the course of the war of 
1870-1871 and during this last war, in accordance with a list which 
will be communicated to it by the French Government; particularly 
the French flags taken in the course of the war of 1870-1871 and all 
the political papers taken by the German authorities on October 10, 
1870, at the chateau of Cercay, near Brunoy (Seine-et-Oise) belong- 
ing at the time to Mr. Rouher, formerly Minister of State. 

Article 246. 

Within six months from the coming into force of the present 
Treaty, Germany will restore to His Majesty the King of the Hedjaz 



52 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

the original Koran of the Caliph Othman, which was removed from 
Medina by the Turkish authorities and is stated to have been pre- 
sented to the ex-Emperor William II. 

Within the same period Germany will hand over to His Britannic 
Majesty's Government the skull of the Sultan Mkwawa which was 
removed from the Protectorate of German East Africa and taken to 
Germany. 

The delivery of the articles above referred to will be effected in 
such place and in such conditions as may be laid down by the Gov- 
ernments to which they are to be restored. 

Article 247. 

Germany undertakes to furnish to the University of Louvain, 
within three months after a request made by it and transmitted 
through the intervention of the Reparation Commission, manuscripts, 
incunabula, printed books, maps and objects of collection correspond- 
ing in number and value to those destroyed in the burning by Ger- 
many of the Library of Louvain. All details regarding such replace- 
ment will be determined by the Reparation Commission. 

Germany undertakes to deliver to Belgium, through the Reparation 
Commission, within six months of the coming into force of the pres- 
ent Treaty, in order to enable Belgium to reconstitute two great 
artistic works : 

(1) The leaves of the triptych of the Mystic Lamb painted by the 
Van Eyck brothers, formerly in the Church of St. Bavon at Ghent, 
now in the Berlin Museum ; 

(2) The leaves of the triptych of the Last Supper, painted by 
Dierick Bouts, formerly in the Church of St. Peter at Louvain, two 
of which are now in the Berlin Museum and two in the Old Pina- 
kothek at Munich. 

PART IX. 
FINANCIAL CLAUSES. 

Article 248. 

Subject to such exceptions as the Reparation Commission may 
approve, a first charge upon all the assets and revenues of the 
German Empire and its constituent States shall be the cost of 
reparation and all other costs arising under the present Treaty or 
any treaties or agreements supplemntary thereto or under arrange- 
ments concluded between Germany and the Allied and Associated 
Powers during the Armistice or its extensions. 

Up to May 1, 1921, the German Government shall not export or 
dispose of, and shall forbid the export or disposal of, gold without 
the previous approval of the Allied and Associated Powers acting 
through the Reparation Commission. 

Article 249. 

There shall be paid by the German Government the total cost of 
all armies of the Allied and Associated Governments in occupied 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 53 

German territory from the date of the signature of the Armistice 
of November 11, 1918, including the keep of men and beasts, lodging 
and billeting, pay and allowances, salaries and wages, bedding, heat- 
ing, lighting, clothing, equipment, harness and saddlery, armament 
and rolling-stock, air services, treatment of sick and wounded, veter- 
inary and remount services, transport service of all sorts (such as by 
rail, sea or river, motor lorries) , communications and correspondence, 
and in general the cost of all administrative or technical services the 
working of which is necessary for the training of troops and for 
keeping their numbers up to strength and preserving their military 
efficiency. 

The cost of such liabilities under the above heads so far as they 
relate to purchases or requisitions by the Allied and Associated Gov- 
ernments in the occupied territories shall be paid by the German 
Government to the Allied and Associated Governments in marks 
at the current or agreed rate of exchange. All other of the above 
costs shall be paid in gold marks. 

Article 250. 

Germany confirms the surrender of all material handed over to the 
Allied and Associated Powers in accordance with the Armistice of 
November 11, 1918, and subsequent Armistice Agreements, and rec- 
ognises the title of the Allied and Associated Powers to such mate- 
rial. 

There shall be credited to the German Government, against the 
.Mms due from it to the Allied and Associated Powers for reparation, 
die value, as assessed by the Separation Commission, referred to in 
Article 233 of Part VIII (Reparation) of the present Treaty, of 
the material handed over in accordance with Article VII of the 
Armistice of November 11, 1918, or Article III of the Armistice 
Agreement of January 16, 1919, as well as of any other material 
handed over in accordance with the Armistice of November 11, 1918. 
and of subsequent Armistice Agreements, for which, as having non- 
military value, credit should in the judgment of the Reparation Com- 
mission be allowed to the German Government. 

Property belonging to the Allied and Associated Governments or 
their nationals restored or surrendered under the Armistice Agree- 
ments in specie shall not be credited to the German Government. 

Article 251. 

The priority of the charges established by Article 248 shall, subject 
to the qualifications made below, be as follows : 

(a) The cost of the armies of occupation as defined under Article 
249 during the Armistice and its extensions; 

(b) The cost of anjr armies of occupation as defined under Article 
249 after the coming into force of the present Treaty; 

(c) The cost of reparation arising out of the present Treaty or 
any treaties or conventions supplementary thereto ; 

(d) The cost of all other obligations incumbent on Germany under 
the Armistice Conventions or under this Treaty or any treaties 
or conventions supplementary thereto. 



54 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

The payment for such supplies of food and raw material for Ger- 
man}' and snch other payments as ma}' be judged by the Allied and 
Associated Powers to be essential to enable Germany to meet her obli- 
gations in respect of reparation will have priority to the extent and 
upon the conditions which have been or may be determined by the 
Governments of the said Powers. 

Article 252. 

The right of each of the Allied and Associated Powers to dispose 
of enemy assets and property within its jurisdiction at the date of the 
coming into force of the present Treaty is not affected by the fore- 
going provisions. 

Article 253. 

Nothing in the foregoing provisions shall prejudice in any manner 
charges or mortgages lawfully effected in favour of the Allied or 
Associated Powers or their nationals respectively, before the date at 
which a state of war existed between Germany and the Allied or 
Associated Power concerned, by the German Empire or its constituent 
States, or bv German nationals, on assets in their ownership at that 
date. 

Article 254. 

The Powers to which 'German territory is ceded shall, subject to 
the qualifications made in Article 255, undertake to pay: 

(1) A portion of the debt of the German Empire as it stood on 

August 1, 1914, calculated on the basis of the ratio between 
the average for the three financial years 1911, 1912, 1913, 
of such revenues of the ceded territory, and the average 
for the same years of such revenues of the whole German 
Empire as in the judgment of the Reparation Commission 
are best calculated to represent the relative ability of the 
respective territories to make payment; 

(2) A portion of the debt as it stood on August 1, 1914, of the 

German State to which the ceded territory belonged, to be 
determined in accordance with the principle stated above. 

Such portions shall be determined by the Reparation Commission. 

The method of discharging the obligation, both in respect of capital 
and of interest, so assumed shall be fixed by the Reparation Commis- 
sion. Such method may take the form, inter alia, of the assumption 
by the Power to which the territory is ceded of Germany's liability 
for the German debt held by her nationals. But in the event of the 
method adopted involving any payments to the German Government, 
such payments shall be transferred to the Reparation Commission on 
account of the sums due for reparation so long as any balance in 
respect of such sums remains unpaid. 

Article 255. 

(1) As an exception to the above provision and inasmuch as in 
1871 Germany refused to undertake any portion of the burden of the 
French debt, France shall be, in respect of Alsace-Lorraine, exempt 
from any payment under Article 254. 



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(2) In the case of Poland that portion of the debt which, in the 
opinion of the Reparation Commission, is attributable to the meas- 
ures taken by the German and Prussian Governments for the 
German colonisation of Poland shall be excluded from the apportion- 
ment to be made under Article 254. 

(3) In the case of all ceded territories other than Alsace-Lorraine, 
that portion of the debt of the German Empire or German States 
which, in the opinion of the Reparation Commission, represents ex- 
penditure by the Governments of the German Empire or States upon 
the Government properties referred to in Article 256 shall be ex- 
cluded from the apportionment to be made under Article 254. 

Article 256. 

Powers to which German territory is ceded shall acquire all prop- 
erty and possessions situated therein belonging to the German Em- 
pire or to the German States, and the value of such acquisitions 
shall be fixed by the Reparation Commission, and paid by the State 
acquiring the territory to the Reparation Commission for the credit of 
the German Government on account of the sums due for reparation. 

For the purposes of this Article the property and possessions of 
the German Empire and States shall be deemed to include all the 
property of the Crown, the Empire or the States, and the private 
property of the former German Emperor and other Royal per- 
sonages. 

In view of the terms on which Alsace-Lorraine was ceded to Ger- 
many in 1871, France shall be exempt in respect thereof from making 
any payment or credit under this Article for any property or posses- 
sions of the German Empire or States situated therein. 

Belgium also shall be exempt from making any payment or any 
credit under this Article for any property or possessions of the 
German Empire or States situated in German territory ceded to 
Belgium under the present Treaty. 

Article 257. 

In the case of the former German territories, including colonies, 
protectorates or dependencies, administered by a Mandatory under 
Article 22 of Part I (League of Nations) of the present Treaty, 
neither the territory nor the Mandatory Power shall be charged 
with any portion of the debt of the German Empire or States. 

All property and possessions belonging to the German Empire or 
to the German States situated in such territories shall be transferred 
with the territories to the Mandatory Power in its capacity as such 
and no payment shall be made nor any credit given to those Govern- 
ments in consideration of this transfer. 

For the purposes of this Article the property and possessions of 
the German Empire and of the German States shall be deemed to 
include all the property of the Crown, the Empire or the States and 
the private property of the former German Emperor and other 
Royal personages. 



56 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

Article 258. 

Germany renounces all rights accorded to her or her nationals by- 
treaties, conventions or agreements, of whatsoever kind, to repre- 
sentation upon or participation in the control or administration of 
commissions, state banks, agencies or other financial or economic 
organisations of an international character, exercising powers of 
control or administration, and operating in any of the Allied or 
Associated States, or in Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria or Turkey, or 
in the dependencies of these States, or in the former Russian 
Empire. 

Article 259. 

(1) Germany agrees to deliver within one month from the date 
of the coming into force of the present Treaty, to such authority as 
the Principal Allied and Associated Powers may designate, the sum 
in gold which was to be deposited in the Reichsbank in the name 
of the Council of the Administration of the Ottoman Public Debt 
as security for the first issue of Turkish Government currency notes. 

(2) Germany recognises her obligation to make annually for the 
period of twelve years the payments in gold for which provision is 
made in the German Treasury Bonds deposited by her from time to 
time in the name of the Council of the Administration of the Otto- 
man Public Debt as security for the second and subsequent issues of 
Turkish Government currency notes. 

(3) Germany undertakes to deliver, within one month from the 
coming into force of the present Treaty, to such authority as the 
Principal Allied and Associated Powers may designate, the gold 
deposit constituted in the Reichsbank or elsewhere, representing the 
residue of the advance in gold agreed to on May 5, 1915, by the 
Council of the Administration of the Ottoman Public Debt to the 
Imperial Ottoman Government. 

(4) Germany agrees to transfer to the Principal Allied and Asso- 
ciated Powers any title that she may have to the sum in gold and 
silver transmitted by her to the Turkish Ministry of Finance in 
November, 1918, in anticipation of the payment to be made in May, 
1919, for the service of the Turkish Internal Loan. 

(5) Germany undertakes to transfer to the Principal Allied and 
Associated Powers, within a period of one month from the coming 
into force of the present Treaty, any sums in gold transferred as 
pledge or as collateral security to the German Government or its 
nationals in connection with loans made by them to the Austro- 
Hungarian Government. 

(6) Without prejudice to Article 292 of Part X (Economic 
Clauses) of the present Treaty, Germany confirms the renunciation 
provided for in Article XV of the Armistice of November 11, 1918, 
of any benefit disclosed by the Treaties of Bucharest and of Brest- 
Litovsk and by the treaties supplementary thereto. 

Germany undertakes to transfer, either to Roumania or to the 
Principal Allied and Associated Powers as the case may be, all 
monetary instruments, specie, securities and negotiable instruments, 
or goods, which she has received under the aforesaid Treaties. 

(7) The sums of money and all securities, instruments and goods 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 57 

of whatsoever nature, to be delivered, paid and transferred under 
the provisions of this Article, shall be disposed of by the Principal 
Allied and Associated Powers in a manner hereafter to be deter- 
mined by those Powers. 

Article 260. 

Without prejudice to the renunciation of any rights by Germany on 
behalf of herself or of her nationals in the other provisions of the 
present Treaty, the Reparation Commission may within one year 
from the coming into force of the present Treaty demand that the 
German Government become possessed of any rights and intrests of 
German nationals in any public utility undertaking or in any conces- 
sion operating in Russia, China, Turkey, Austria, Hungary and 
Bulgaria, or in the possessions or dependencies of these States or 
in any territory formerly belonging to Germany or her allies, to be 
ceded by Germany or her allies to any Power or to be administered 
by a Mandatory under the present Treaty, and may require that the 
German Government transfer, within six months of the date of de- 
mand, all such rights and interests and any similar rights and inter- 
ests the German Government may itself possess to the Reparation 
Commission. 

Germany shall be responsible for indemnifying her nationals so 
dispossessed, and the Reparation Commission shall credit Germany, 
on account of sums due for reparation, with such sums in respect 
of the value of the transferred rights and interests as may be assessed 
by the Reparation Commission, and the German Government shall, 
within six months from the coming into force of the present Treaty, 
communicate to the Reparation Commission all such rights and in- 
terests, whether already granted, contingent or not yet exercised, and 
shall renounce on behalf of itself and its nationals in favour of the 
Allied and Associated Powers all such rights and interests which 
have not been so communicated. 

Article 261. 

Germany undertakes to transfer to the Allied and Associated 
Powers any claims she may have to payment or repayment by the 
Governments of Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria or Turkey, and, in 
particular, any claims which may arise, now or hereafter, from the 
fulfilment of undertakings made by Germany during the war to 
those Governments. 

Article 262. 

Any monetary obligation due by Germany arising out of the present 
Treaty and expressed in terms of gold marks shall be payable at the 
option of the creditors in pounds sterling payable in London; gold 
dollars of the United States of America payable in New York ; gold 
francs payable in Paris; or gold lire payable in Rome. 

For the purpose of this Article the gold coins mentioned above shall 
be defined as being of the weight and fineness of gold as enacted by 
law on January 1, 1914. 



58 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMAN*. 

Article 263. 

Germany gives a guarantee to the Brazilian Government that all 
sums representing the sale of coffee belonging to the State of Sao 
Paolo in the ports of Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp and Trieste, which 
were deposited with the Bank of Bleichroder at Berlin, shall be reim- 
bursed together with interest at the rate or rates agreed upon. Ger- 
many having prevented the transfer of the sums in question to the 
State of Sao Paolo at the proper time, guarantees also that the reim- 
bursement shall be effected at the rate of exchange of the day of the 
deposit. 

PART X. 

ECONOMIC CLAUSES. 

Section I. 

COMMERCIAL RELATIONS. 

Chapter I. 

customs regulations, duties and restrictions. 

Article 264. 

Germany undertakes that goods the produce or manufacture of 
any one of the Allied or Associated States imported into German 
territory, from whatsoever place arriving, shall not be subjected to 
other or higher duties or charges (including internal charges) than 
those to which the like goods the produce or manufacture of any 
other such State or of any other foreign country are subject, 

Germany will not maintain or impose any prohibition or restric- 
tion on the importation into German territory of any goods the 
produce or manufacture of the territories of any one of the Allied or 
Associated States, from whatsoever place arriving, which shall not 
equally extend to the importation of the like goods the produce or 
manufacture of any other such State or of any other foreign country. 

Article 265. 

Germany further undertakes that, in the matter of the regime ap- 
plicable on importation, no discrimination against the commerce of 
any of the Allied and Associated States as compared with any other 
of the said States or any other foreign country shall be made, even 
by indirect means, such as customs regulations or procedure, methods 
of verification or analysis conditions of payment of duties, tariff 
classification or interpretation, or the operation of monopolies. 

Article 266. 

In all that concerns exportation Germany Undertakes that goods, 
natural products or manufactured articles, exported from German 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 59 

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territory to the territories of any one of the Allied or Associated 
States shall not be subjected to other or higher duties or charges 
(including internal charges) than those paid on the like goods ex- 
ported to any other such State or to any other foreign country. 
_ Germany will not maintain or impose any prohibition or' restric- 
tion on the exportation of any goods sent from her territory to any 
one of the Allied or Associated States which shall not equally extend 
to the exportation of the like goods, natural products or manufac- 
tured articles, sent to any other such State or to any other foreign 
country. 

Article 267. 

Every favour, immunity or privilege in regard to the importation, 
exportation or transit of goods granted by Germany to any Allied or 
Associated State or to any other foreign country whatever shall 
simultaneously and unconditionally, without request and without 
compensation, be extended to all the Allied and Associated States. 

Article 268. 

The provisions of Articles 264 to 267 inclusive of this Chapter and 
of Article 323 of Part XII (Ports, Waterways and Railways) of the 
present Treaty are subject to the following exceptions: 

(a) For a period of five years from the coming into force of the 
present Treaty, natural or manufactured products which both origi- 
nate in and come from the territories of Alsace and Lorraine reunited 
to France shall, on importation into German customs territory, be 
exempt from all customs duty. 

The French Government shall fix each year, by decree communi- 
cated to the German Government, the nature and amount of the 
products which shall enjoy this exemption. 

The amount of each product which may be thus sent annually into 
Germanv shall not exceed the average of the amounts sent annually 
in the years 1911-1913. 

Further, during the period above mentioned the German Govern- 
ment shall allow the free export from Germany, and the free re-im- 
portation into Germany, exempt from all customs duties and other 
charges (including internal charges), of yarns, tissues, and other 
textile materials or textile products of any kind and in any condi- 
tion, sent from Germany into the territories of Alsace or Lorraine, 
to be subjected there to any finishing process, such as bleaching, dye- 
ing, printing, mercerisation, gassing, twisting or dressing. 

(b) During a period of three years from the coming into force 
of the present Treaty natural or manufactured products which both 
originate in and come from Polish territories which before the war 
were part of Germany shall, on importation into German customs 
territory, be exempt from all customs duty. 

The Polish Government shall fix each year, by decree communi- 
cated to the German Government, the nature and amount of the 
products which shall enjoy this exemption. 

The amount of each product which may be thus sent annually into 
Germany shall not exceed the average of the amounts sent annually 
in the years 1911-1913. 



60 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

(c) The Allied and Associated Powers reserve the right to require 
Germany to accord freedom from customs duty, on importation into 
German customs territory, to natural products and manufactured 
articles which both originate in and come from the Grand Duchy 
of Luxemburg, for a period of five years from the coming into force 
of the present Treaty. 

The nature and amount of the products which shall enjoy the bene- 
fits of this regime shall be communicated each year to the German 
Government. 

The amount of each product which may be thus sent annually into 
Germany shall not exceed the average of the amounts sent annually 
in the years 1911-1913. 

Article 269. 

During the first six months after the coming into force of the pres- 
ent Treaty, the duties imposed by Germany on imports from Allied 
and Associated States shall not be higher than the most favourable 
duties which were applied to imports into Germany on July 31, 1914. 

During a further period of thirty months after the expiration of 
the first six months, this provision shall continue to be applied exclu- 
sively with regard to products which, being comprised in Section A 
of the First Category of the German Customs Tariff of December 
25, 1902, enjoyed at the above-mentioned date (July 31, 1914) rates 
conventionalised by treaties with the Allied and Associated Powers, 
with the addition of all kinds of wine and vegetable oils, of artificial 
silk and of washed or scoured wool, whether or not they were the 
subject of special conventions before July 31, 1914. 

Article 270. 

The Allied and Associated Powers reserve the right to apply to 
German territory occupied by their troops a special customs regime 
as regards imports and exports, in the event of such a measure being 
necessary in their opinion in order to safeguard the economic 
interests of the population of these territories. 



Chapter II. 

shipping. 

Article 271. 

As regards sea fishing, maritime coasting trade, and maritime tow- 
age, vessels of the Allied and Associated Powers shall enjoy, in 
German territorial waters, the treatment accorded to vessels of the 
most favoured nation. 

Article 272. 

Germany agrees that, notwithstanding any stipulation to the con- 
trary contained in the Conventions relating to the North Sea fish- 
eries and liquor traffic, all rights of inspection and police shall, in 
the case of fishing-boats of the Allied Powers, be exercised solely by 
ships belonging to those Powers. 



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Article 273. 

In the case of vessels of the Allied or Associated Powers, all classes 
of certificates or documents relating to the vessel, which were recog- 
nised as valid by Germany before the war, or which may hereafter 
be recognised as valid by the principal maritime States, shall be 
recognised by Germany as valid and as equivalent to the correspond- 
ing certificates issued to German vessels. 

A similar recognition shall be accorded to the certificates and 
documents issued to their vessels by the Governments of new States, 
whether they have a sea-coast or not, provided that such certificates 
and documents shall be issued in conformity with the general prac- 
tice observed in the principal maritime States. 

The High Contracting Parties agree to recognise the flag flown 
by the vessels of an Allied or Associated Power having no sea-coast 
which are registered at some one specified place situated in its terri- 
tory; such place shall serve as the port of registry of such vessels. 

Chapter III. 

unfair competition. 

Article 274. 

Germany undertakes to adopt all the necessary legislative and 
administrative measures to protect goods the produce or manu- 
facture of any one of the Allied and Associated Powers from all 
forms of unfair competition in commercial transactions. 

Germany undertakes to prohibit and repress by seizure and by 
other appropriate remedies the importation, exportation, manufac- 
ture, distribution, sale or offering for sale in its territory of all goods 
bearing upon themselves or their usual get-up or wrappings any 
marks, names, devices, or description whatsoever which are calcu- 
lated to convey directly or indirectly a false indication of the origin, 
type, nature, or special characteristics of such goods. 

Article 275. 

Germany undertakes on condition that reciprocity is accorded in 
these matters to respect any law, or any administrative or judicial 
decision given in conformity with such law, in force in any Allied 
or Associated State and duly communicated to her by the proper 
authorities, defining or regulating the right to any regional appella- 
tion in respect of wine or spirits produced in the State to which the 
region belongs, or the conditions under which the use of any such 
appellation may be permitted; and the importation, exportation, 
manufacture, distribution, sale or offering for sale of products or 
articles bearing regional appellations inconsistent with such law or 
order shall be prohibited by the German Government and repressed 
by the measures prescribed in the preceding Article. 



62 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

Chapter IV. 

treatment of nationals of allied and associated powers. 

Article 276. 

Germany undertakes : 

(a) Not to subject the nationals of the Allied and Associated 
Powers to any prohibition in regard to the exercise of occupations, 
professions, trade and industry, which shall not be equally applicable 
to all aliens without exception; 

(b) Not to subject the nationals of the Allied and Associated 
Powers in regard to the rights referred to in paragraph (a) to any 
regulation or restriction which might contravene directly or indi- 
rectly the stipulations of the said paragraph, or which shall be 
other or more disadvantageous than those which are applicable to 
nationals of the most favoured nation ; 

(c) Not to subject the nationals of the Allied and Associated 
Powers, their property, rights or interests, including companies and 
associations in which they are interested, to any charge, tax or im- 
post, direct or indirect, other or higher than those which are or may 
be imposed on her own nationals or their property, rights or in- 
terests ; 

(d) Not to subject the nationals of any one of the Allied and 
Associated Powers to any restriction which was not applicable on 
July 1, 1914, to the nationals of such Powers unless such restriction 
is likewise imposed on her own nationals. 

Article 277. 

The nationals of the Allied and Associated Powers shall enjoy in 
German territory a constant protection for their persons and for 
their property, rights and interests, and shall have free access to the 
courts of law. 

Article 278. 

Germany undertakes to recognise any new nationality which has 
been or may be acquired by her nationals under the laws of the 
Allied and Associated Powers and in accordance with the decisions 
of the competent authorities of these Powers pursuant to naturalisa- 
tion laws or under treaty stipulations, and to regard such persons as 
having, in consequence of the acquisition of such new nationality, in 
all respects severed their allegiance to their country of origin. 

Article 279. 

The Allied and Associated Powers may appoint consuls-general, 
consuls, vice-consuls, and consular agents in German towns and 
ports. Germany undertakes to approve the designation of the 
consuls-general, consuls, vice-consuls, and consular agents, whose 
names shall be notified to her, and to admit them to the exercise of 
their functions in conformity with the usual rules and customs. 



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Chapter V. 

general articles. 

Article 280. 

The obligations imposed on Germany by Chapter I and by Articles 
271 and 272 of Chapter II above shall cease to have effect five years 
from the date of the coming into, force of the present Treaty, unless 
otherwise provided in the text, or unless the Council of the League 
of Nations shall, at least twelve months before the expiration of that 
period, decide that these obligations shall be maintained for a further 
period with or without amendment. 

Article 276 of Chapter IV shall remain in operation, with or with- 
out amendment, after the period of five years for such further period, 
if any, not exceeding five years, as may be determined by a majority 
of the Council of the League of Nations. 

Article 281. 

If the German Government engages in international trade, it shall 
not in respect thereof have or be deemed to have any rights, privi- 
leges or immunities of sovereignty. 

Section II. 

TREATIES. 

Article 282. 

From the coming into force of the present Treaty and subject to 
the provisions thereof the multilateral treaties, conventions and 
agreements of an economic or technical character enumerated below 
and in the subsequent Articles shall alone be applied as between Ger 
many and those of the Allied and Associated Powers party thereto : 

(1) Conventions of March 14, 1884, December 1, 1886, and March 
23, 1887, and Final Protocol of July 7, 1887, regarding the protection 
of submarine cables. 

(2) Convention of October 11, 1909, regarding the international 
circulation of motor-cars. 

(3) Agreement of May 15, 1886, regarding the sealing of railway 
trucks subject to customs inspection, and Protocol of May 18, 1907. 

(4) Agreement of May 15, 1886, regarding the technical standardi- 
sation of railways. 

(5) Convention of July 5, 1890, regarding the publication of cus- 
toms tariffs and the organisation of an International Union for the 
publication of customs tariffs. 

(6) Convention of December 31, 1913, regarding the unification of 
commercial statistics. 

(7) Convention of April 25, 1907, regarding the raising of the 
Turkish customs tariff. 

(8) Convention of March 14, 1857, for the redemption of toll dues 
on the Sound and Belts. 



64 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

(9) Convention of June 22, 1861, for the redemption of the Stade 
Toll on the Elbe. 

(10) Convention of July 16, 1863, for the redemption of the toll 
dues on the Scheldt. 

(11) Convention of October 29, 1888, regarding the establishment 
of a definite arrangement guaranteeing the free use of the Suez 
Canal. 

(12) Conventions of September 23, 1910, respecting the unification 
of certain regulations regarding collisions and salvage at sea. 

(13) Convention of December 21, 1904, regarding the exemption of 
hospital ships from dues and charges in ports. 

(14) Convention of February 4, 1898, regarding the tonnage meas- 
urement of vessels for inland navigation. 

(15) Convention of September 26, 1906, for the suppression of 
night work for women. 

(16) Convention of September 26, 1906, for the suppression of the 
use of white phosphorus in the manufacture of matches. 

(17) Conventions of May 18, 1904, and May 4, 1910, regarding the 
suppression of the White Slave Traffic. 

(18) Convention of May 4, 1910, regarding the suppression of 
obscene publications. 

(19) Sanitary Conventions of January 30, 1892, April 15, 1893, 
April 3, 1894, March 19, 1897, and December 3, 1903. 

(20) Convention of May 20, 1875, regarding the unification and 
improvement of the metric system. 

(21) Convention of November 29, 1906, regarding the unification 
of pharmacopceial formula for potent drugs. 

(22) Convention of November 16 and 19, 1885, regarding the estab- 
lishment of a concert pitch. 

(23) Convention of June 7, 1905, regarding the creation of an 
International Agricultural Institute at Rome. 

(24)^ Conventions of November 3, 1881, and April 15, 1889, 
regarding precautionary measures against phylloxera. 

(25) Convention of March 19, 1902, regarding the protection of 
birds useful to agriculture. 

(26) Convention of June 12, 1902, as to the protection of minors. 

Article 283. 

From the coming into force of the present Treaty the High Con- 
tracting Parties shall apply the conventions and agreements herein- 
after mentioned, in so far as concerns them, on condition that the 
special stipulations contained in this Article are fulfilled by 
Germany. 

Postal Conventions: 

Conventions and agreements of the Universal Postal Union con- 
cluded at Vienna, July 4, 1891. 

Conventions and agreements of the Postal Union signed at Wash- 
ington, June 15, 1897. 

Conventions and agreements of the Postal Union signed at Rome. 
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TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 65 

Telegraphic Conventions: 

International Telegraphic Conventions signed at St. Petersburg 
July 10/22, 1875. 

Regulations and Tariffs drawn up by the International Tele- 
graphic Conference. Lisbon, June 11, 1908. 

Germany undertakes not to refuse her assent to the conclusion 
by the new States of the special arrangements referred to in the 
conventions and agreements relating to the Universal Postal Union 
and to the International Telegraphic Union, to which the said new 
States have adhered or may adhere. 

Article 284. 

From the coming into force of the present Treaty the High Con- 
tracting Parties shall apply, in so far as concerns them, the Inter- 
national Radio-Telegraphic Convention of July 5, 1912. on condi- 
tion that Germany fulfils the provisional regulations which will be 
indicated to her by the Allied and Associated Powers. 

If within five years after the coming into force of the present 
Treaty a new convention regulating international radio-telegraphic 
communications should have been concluded to take the place of the 
Convention of July 5, 1912, this new convention shall bind Germany, 
even if Germany should refuse either to take part in drawing up the 
convention, or to subscribe thereto. 

This new convention will likewise replace the provisional regula- 
tions in force. 

Article 285. 

From the coming into force of the present Treaty, the High Con- 
tracting Parties shall apply in so far as concerns them and under 
the conditions stipulated in Article 272, the conventions hereinafter 
mentioned : 

(1) The Conventions of May 6, 1882, and February 1, 1889, regu- 
lating the fisheries in the North Sea outside territorial waters. 

(2) The Conventions and Protocols of November 16, 1887, Febru- 
ary 14, 1893, and April 11, 1894, regarding the North Sea liquor 
traffic. 

Article 286. 

The International Convention of Paris of March 20, 1883, for the 
protection of industrial property, revised at Washington on June 
2, 1911 ; and the International Convention of Berne of September 9, 
1886, for the protection of literary and artistic works, revised at 
Berlin on November 13, 1908, and completed by the additional 
Protocol signed at Berne on March 20, 1914, will again come into 
effect as from the coming into force of the present Treaty, in so far 
as they are not affected or modified by the exceptions and restrictions 
resulting therefrom. 

Article 287. 

From the coming into force of the present Treaty the High Con- 
tracting Parties shall apply, in so far as concerns them, the Conven- 
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66 TREATY OF PEACE "WITH GERMANY. 

tion of the Hague of July 17, 1905, relating to civil procedure. This 
renewal, however, will not apply to France, Portugal and Roumania. 

Article 288. 

The special rights and privileges granted to Germany by Article 
3 of the Convention of December 2. 1899, relating to Samoa shall be 
considered to have terminated on August 4, 1914. 

Article 289. 

Each of the Allied or Associated Powers, being guided by the 
general principles or special provisions of the present Treaty, shall 
notify to Germany the bilateral treaties or conventions which such 
Allied or Associated Power wishes to revive with Germany. 

The notification referred to in the present Article shall be made 
either directly or through the intermediary of another Power. 
Receipt thereof shall be acknowledged in writing by Germany. The 
date of the revival shall be that of the notification. 

The Allied and Associated Powers undertake among themselves 
not to revive with Germany any conventions or treaties which are 
not in accordance with the terms of the present Treaty. 

The notification shall mention any provisions of the said conven- 
tions and treaties which, not being in accordance with the terms of 
the present Treaty, shall not be considered as revived. 

In case of any difference of opinion, the League of Nations will be 
called on to decide. 

A period of six months from the coming into force, of the present 
Treaty is allowed to the Allied and Associated Powers within which 
to make the notification. 

Only those bilateral treaties and conventions which have been the 
subject of such a notification shall be revived between the Allied and 
Associated Powers and Germany; all the others are and shall re- 
main abrogated. 

The above regulations apply to all bilateral treaties or conventions 
existing between all the Allied and Associated Powers signatories 
to the present Treaty and Germany, even if the said Allied and 
Associated Powers have not been in a state of war with Germany. 

Article 290. 

Germany recognises that all the treaties, conventions or agree- 
ments which she has concluded with Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria or 
Turkey since August 1, 1914, until the coming into force of the pres- 
ent Treaty are and remain abrogated by the present Treaty. 

Article 291. 

Germany undertakes to secure to the Allied and Associated Pow- 
ers, and to the officials and nationals of the said Powers, the enjoy- 
ment of all the rights and advantages of any kind which she may 
have granted to Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria or Turkey, or to the 
officials and nationals of these States by treaties, conventions or ar- 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 67 

rangements concluded before August 1, 1914, so Jong as those trea- 
ties, conventions or arrangements remahvin force. 

The Allied and Associated Powers reserve the right to accept or 
not the enjoyment of these rights and advantages. 

Article 292. 

Germany recognises that all treaties, conventions or arrangements 
which she concluded with Russia, or with any State or Government 
of which the territory previously formed a part of Russia, or with 
Roumania, before August 1, 1914, or after that date until coming into 
force of the present Treaty, are and remain abrogated. 

Article 293. 

Should an Allied or Associated Power, Russia, or a State or Gov- 
ernment of which the territory formerly constituted a part of Russia, 
have been forced since August 1, 1914, by reason of military occupa- 
tion or by any other means or for any other cause, to grant or to 
allow to be granted by the act of any public authority, concessions, 
privileges and favours of any kind to Germany or to a German 
national, such concessions, privileges and favours are ipso facto 
annulled by the present Treaty. 

No claims or indemnities which may result from this annulment 
shall be charged against the Allied or Associated Powers or the 
Powers, States, Governments or public authorities which are released 
from their engagements by the present Article. 

Article 294. 

From the coming into force of the present Treaty Germany under- 
takes to give the Allied and Associated Powers and their nationals 
the benefit ipso facto of the rights and advantages of any kind which 
she has granted by treaties, conventions, or arrangements to non- 
belligerent States or their nationals since August 1. 1914, until the 
coming into force of the present Treaty, so long as those treaties. 
conventions or arrangements remain in force. 

Article 295. 

Those of the. High Contracting Parties who have not yet signed, 
or who have signed but not yet ratified, the Opium Convention 
signed at The Hague on January 23, 1912, agree to bring the said 
Convention into force, and for this purpose to enact the necessary 
legislation without delay and in any case within a period of twelve 
months from the coming into force of the present Treaty. 

Furthermore, they agree that ratification of the present Treaty 
should in the case of Powers which have not yet ratified the Opium 
Convention be deemed in all respects equivalent to the ratification of 
that Convention and to the signature of the Special Protocol which 
was opened at The Hague in accordance with the resolutions adopted 
by the Third Opium Conference in 1914 for bringing the said Con- 
vention into force. 



68 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

For this purpose the Government of the French Republic will com- 
municate to the Government of the Netherlands a certified copy of 
the protocol of the deposit of ratifications of the present Treaty, and 
will invite the Government of the Netherlands to accept and deposit 
the said certified copy as if it were a deposit of ratifications of the 
Opium Convention and a signature of the Additional Protocol of 
1914. 

Section III. 

DEBTS. 

Article 296. 

There shall be settled through the intervention of clearing offices 
to be established by each of the High Contracting Parties within 
three months of the notification referred to in paragraph (e) here- 
after the following classes of pecuniary obligations : 

(1) Debts payable before the war and due by a national of one of 
the Contracting Powers, residing within its territory, to a national 
of an Opposing Power, residing within its territory; 

(2) Debts which became payable during the war to nationals of 
one Contracting Power residing within its territory and arose out of 
transactions or contracts with the nationals of an Opposing Power, 
resident within its territory, of which the total or partial execution 
was suspended on account of the declaration of war; 

v 3) Interest which has accrued due before and during the war to 
a national of one of the Contracting Powers in respect of securities 
issued by an Opposing Power, provided that the payment of interest 
on such securities to the nationals of that Power or to neutrals has 
not been suspended during the war ; 

(4) Capital sums which have become payable before and during 
the war to nationals of one of the Contracting Powers in respect of 
securities issued by one of the Opposing Powers, provided that the 
payment of such capital sums to nationals of that Power or to 
neutrals has not been suspended during the war. 

The proceeds of liquidation of enemy property, rights and interests 
mentioned in Section IV and in the Annex thereto will be accounted 
for through the Clearing Offices, in the currency and at the rate of 
exchange hereinafter provided in paragraph (d), and disposed of 
by them under the conditions provided by the said Section and 
Annex. 

The settlements provided for in this Article shall be effected ac- 
cording to the following principles and in accordance with the Annex 
to this Section : 

(a) Eachvof the High Contracting Parties shall prohibit, as from 
the coming into force of the present Treaty, both the payment and 
the acceptance of payment of such debts, and also all communications 
between the interested parties with regard to the settlement of the 
said debts otherwise than through the Clearing Offices; 

(h) Each of the High Contracting Parties shall be respectively 
responsible for the payment of such debts due by its nationals, except 
in the cases where before the war the debtor was in a state of bank- 
ruptcy or failure, or had given formal indication of insolvency or 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 69 

where the debt was due by a company whose business has been liqui- 
dated under emergency legislation during the war. Nevertheless, 
debts clue by the inhabitants of territory invaded or occupied by the 
enemy before the Armistice will not be guaranteed by the States of 
which those territories form part; 

(c) The sums due to the nationals of one of the High Contracting 
Parties by the nationals of an Opposing State will be debited to 
the Clearing Office of the country of the debtor, and paid to the 
creditor by the Clearing Office of the country of the creditor; 

(d) Debts shall be paid or credited in the currency of such one of 
the Allied and Associated Powers, their colonies or protectorates, 
or the British Dominions or India, as may be concerned. If the 
debts are payable in some other currency they shall be paid or 
credited in the currency of the country concerned, whether an Allied 
or Associated Power, Colony, Protectorate, British Dominion or 
India, at the pre-war rate of exchange. 

For the purpose of this provision the pre-war rate of exchange shall 
be defined as the average cable transfer rate prevailing in the Allied 
or Associated country concerned during the month immediately pre- 
ceding the outbreak of war between the said country concerned and 
Germany. 

If a contract provides for a fixed rate of exchange governing the 
conversion of the currency in which the debt is stated into the cur- 
rency of the Allied or Associated country concerned, then the above 
provisions concerning the rate of exchange shall not apply. 

In the case of new States the currency in which and the rate of 
exchange at which debts shall be paid or credited shall be deter- 
mined by the Reparation Commission provided for in Part VIII 
(Reparation) ; 

(e) The provisions of this Article and of the Annex hereto shall 
not apply as between Germany on the one hand and any one of the 
Allied and Associated Powers, their colonies or protectorates, or any 
one of the British Dominions or India on the other hand, unless within 
a period of one month from the deposit of the ratification of the pres- 
ent Treaty by the Power in question, or of the ratification on behalf of 
such Dominion or of India, notice to that effect is given to Germany 
by the Government of such Allied or Associated Power or of such 
Dominion or of India as the case may be ; 

(/) The Allied and Associated Powers who have adopted this 
Article and the Annex hereto may agree between themselves to apply 
them to their respective nationals established in their territory so far 
as regards matters between their nationals and German nationals. 
In this case the payments made by application of this provision will 
be subject to arrangements between the Allied and Associated Clear- 
ing Offices concerned. 

ANNEX. 

1. 

Each of the High Contracting Parties will, within three months 
from the notification provided for in Article 296, paragraph (e), 
establish a Clearing Office for the collection and payment of enemy 
debts. 



70 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

Local Clearing Offices may be established for any particular por- 
tion of the territories of the High Contracting Parties. Such local 
Clearing Offices may perform all the functions of a central Clearing 
Office in their respective districts, except that all transactions with 
the Clearing Office in the Opposing State must be effected through 
the central Clearing Office. 



In this Annex the pecuniary obligations referred to in the first 
paragraph of Article 296 are described " as enemy debts ", the persons 
from whom the same are due as "enemy debtors", the persons to 
whom they are due as " enemy creditors ". the Clearing Office in the 
country of the creditor is called the " Creditor Clearing Office ", and 
the Clearing Office in the country of the debtor is called the " Debtor 
Clearing Office." 

3. 

The High Contracting Parties will subject contraventions of para- 
graph (a) of Article 296 to the same penalties as are at present 
provided by their legislation for trading with the enemy. They 
will similarly prohibit within their territory all legal process relat- 
ing to payment of enemy debts, except in accordance with the pro- 
visions of this Annex. 



The Government guarantee specified in paragraph (b) of Article 
290 shall take effect whenever, for any reason, a debt shall not be 
recoverable, except in a case where at the date of the outbreak of 
war the debt was barred by the laws of prescription in force in the 
country of the debtor, or where the debtor was at that time in a state 
of bankruptcy or failure or had given formal indication of insolv- 
ency, or where the debt was due by a company whose business has 
been liquidated under emergency legislation during the war. In 
such case the procedure specified by this Annex shall apply to pay- 
ment of the dividends. 

The terms "bankruptcy" and "failure" refer to the application of 
legislation providing for such juridical conditions. The expression 
"formal indication of insolvency" bears the same meaning as it has 
in English law. 



Creditors shall give notice to the Creditor Clearing Office within 
six months of its establishment of debts due to them, and shall fur- 
nish the Clearing Office with any documents and information re- 
quired of them. 

The High Contracting Parties will take all suitable measures to 
trace and punish collusion between enemy creditors and debtors. 
The Clearing Offices will communicate to one another any evidence 
and information which might help the discovery and punishment of 
such collusion. 

The High Contracting Parties will facilitate as much as possible 
postal and telegraphic communication at the expense of the parties 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 71 

concerned and through the intervention of the Clearing Offices be- 
tween debtors and creditors desirous of coming to an agreement as 
to the amount of their debt. 

The Creditor Clearing Office will notify the Debtor Clearing 
Office of all debts declared to it. The Debtor Clearing Office will, 
in due course, inform the Creditor Clearing Office which debts are 
admitted and which debts are contested. In the latter case, the 
Debtor Clearing Office will give the grounds for the non-admission 
of debt. 



When a debt has been admitted, in whole or in part, the Debtor 
Clearing Office will at once credit the Creditor Clearing Office with 
the amount admitted, and at the same time notify it of such credit. 

7. 

The debt shall be deemed to be admitted in full and shall be 
credited forthwith to the Creditor Clearing Office unless within three 
months from the receipt of the notification or such longer time as 
may be agreed to by the Creditor Clearing Office notice has been 
given by the Debtor Clearing Office that it is not admitted. 



When the whole or part of a debt is not admitted the two Clear- 
ing Offices will examine into the matter jointly and will endeavour 
to bring the parties to an agreement. 



The Creditor Clearing Office will pay to the individual creditor 
the sums credited to it out of the funds placed at its disposal by the 
Government of its country and in accordance with the conditions 
fixed by the said Government, retaining any sums considered neces- 
sary to cover risks, expenses or commissions. 

10. 

Any person having claimed payment of an enemy debt which is 
not admitted in whole or in part shall pay to the clearing office, by 
way of fine, interest at 5 per cent, on the part not admitted. Any 
person having unduly refused to admit the whole or part of a debt 
claimed from him shall pay, by way of fine, interest at 5 per cent. 
on the amount with regard to which his refusal shall be disallowed. 

Such interest shall run from the date of expiration of the period 
provided for in paragraph 7 until the date on which the claim shall 
have been disallowed or the debt paid. 

Each Clearing Office shall in so far as it is concerned take steps 
to collect the fines above provided for, and will be responsible if such 
fines cannot be collected. 

The fines will be credited to the other Clearing Office, which shall 
retain them as a contribution towards the cost of carrying out the 
present provisions. 



72 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

11. 

The balance between the Clearing Offices shall be struck monthly 
and the credit balance paid in cash by the debtor State within a 
week. 

Nevertheless, any credit balances which may be due by one or more 
of the Allied and Associated Powers shall be retained until complete 
payment shall have been effected of the sums due to the Allied or 
Associated Powers or their nationals on account of the war. 

12. 

To facilitate discussion between the Clearing Offices each of them 
shall have a representative at the place where the other is established. 

13. 

Except for special reasons all discussions in regard to claims will, 
so far as possible, take place at the Debtor Clearing Office. 

14. 

In conformity with Article 296, paragraph (&), the High Con- 
tracting Parties are responsible for the payment of the enemy debts 
owing by their nationals. 

The Debtor Clearing Office will therefore credit the Creditor 
Clearing Office with all debts admitted, even in case of inability to 
collect them from the individual debtor. The Governments con- 
cerned will, nevertheless, invest their respective Clearing Offices with 
all necessary powers for the recovery of debts which have been 
admitted. 

As an exception, the admitted debts owing by persons having 
suffered injury from acts of war shall only be credited to the 
Creditor Clearing Office when the compensation due to the person 
concerned in respect of such injury shall have been paid. 

15. 

Each Government will defray the expenses of the Clearing Office 
set up in its territory, including the salaries of the staff. 

16. 

Where the two Clearing Offices are unable to agree whether a 
debt claimed is due, or in case of a difference between an enemy 
debtor and an enemy creditor or between the Clearing Offices, the 
dispute shall either be referred to arbitration if the parties so agree 
under conditions fixed by agreement between them, or referred to 
the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal provided for in Section VI hereafter. 

At the request of the Creditor Clearing Office the dispute may, 
however, be submitted to the jurisdiction of the Courts of the place 
of domicile of the debtor. 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 73 

17. 

Recovery of sums found by the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal, the 
Court, or the Arbitration Tribunal to be due shall be effected 
through the Clearing Offices as if these sums were debts admitted 
by the Debtor Clearing Office. 

18. 

Each of the Governments concerned shall appoint an agent who 
will be responsible for the presentation to the Mixed Arbitral 
Tribunal of the cases conducted on behalf of its Clearing Office. 
This agent will exercise a general control over the representatives 
or counsel employed by its nationals. 

Decisions will be arrived at on documentary evidence, but it will 
be open to the Tribunal to hear the parties in person, or according 
to their preference by their representatives approved by the two 
Governments, or by the agent referred to above, who shall be com- 
petent to intervene along with the party or to re-open and maintain 
a claim abandoned by the same. 

19. 

The Clearing Offices concerned will lay before the Mixed Arbitral 
Tribunal all the information and documents in their possession* 
so as to enable the Tribunal to decide rapidly on the cases which 
are brought before it. 

20. 

Where one of the parties concerned appeals against the joint deci- 
sion of the two Clearing Offices he shall make a deposit against the 
costs, which deposit shall only be refunded when the first judgment 
is modified in favour of the appellant and in proportion to the suc- 
cess he may attain, his opponent in case of such a refund being 
required to pay an equivalent proportion of the costs and expenses. 
Security accepted by the Tribunal may be substituted for a deposit. 

A fee of 5 per cent, of the amount in dispute shall be charged in 
respect of all cases brought before the Tribunal. This fee shall, 
unless the Tribunal directs otherwise, be borne by the unsuccessful 
party. Such fee shall be added to the deposit referred to. It is also 
independent of the security. 

The Tribunal may award to one of the parties a sum in respect of 
the expenses of the proceedings. 

Any sum payable under this paragraph shall be credited to the 
Clearing Office of the successful party as a separate item. 

21. 

With a view to the rapid settlement of claims, due regard shall 
be paid in the appointment of all persons connected with the Clear- 
ing Offices or with the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal to their knowledge 
of the language of the other country concerned. 



74 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

Each of the Clearing Offices will be at liberty to correspond with 
the other and to forward documents in its own language. 



Subject to any special agreement to the contrary between the Gov- 
ernments concerned, debts shall carry interest in accordance with 
the following provisions: 

Interest shall not be payable on sums of money due by way of 
dividend, interest or other periodical payments which themselves 
represent interest on capital. 

The rate of interest shall be 5 per cent, per annum except in cases 
where, by contract, law or custom, the creditor is entitled to payment 
of interest at a different rate. In such cases the rate to which he is 
entitled shall prevail. 

Interest shall run from the date of commencement of hostilities 
(or, if the sum of money to be recovered fell due during the war, 
from the date at which it fell due) until the sum is credited to the 
Clearing Office of the creditor. 

Sums due by way of interest shall be treated as debts admitted 
by the Clearing Offices and shall be credited to the Creditor Clearing 
Office in the same way as such debts. 

23. 

Where by decision of the Clearing Offices or the Mixed Arbitral 
Tribunal a claim is held not to fall within Article 296, the creditor 
shall be at liberty to prosecute the claim before the Courts or to 
take such other proceedings as may be open to him. 

The presentation of a claim to the Clearing Office suspends the 
operation of any period of prescription. 

24. 

The High Contracting Parties agree to regard the decisions of the 
Mixed Arbitral Tribunal as final and conclusive, and to render them 
binding upon their nationals. 

25. 

In any case where a Creditor Clearing Office declines to notify a 
claim to the Debtor Clearing Office, or to take any step provided for 
in this Annex, intended to make effective in whole or in part a 
request of which it has received due notice, the enemy creditor shall 
be entitled to receive from the Clearing Office a certificate setting 
out the amount of the claim, and shall then be entitled to prosecute 
the claim before the courts or to take such other proceedings as may 
be open to him. 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 75 

Section IV. 
PROPERTY, RIGHTS AND INTERESTS. 

Article 297. 

The question of private property, rights and interests in an enemy 
country shall be settled according to the principles laid down in this 
Section and to the provisions of the Annex hereto. 

(a) The exceptional war measures and measures of transfer (de- 
lined in paragraph 3 of the Annex hereto) taken by Germany with 
respect to the property, rights and interests of nationals of Allied or 
Associated Powers, including companies and associations in which 
they are interested, when liquidation has not been completed, shall 
be immediately discontinued or stayed and the property, rights and 
interests concerned restored to their owners, who shall enjoy full 
rights therein in accordance with the provisions of Article 298. 

(b) Subject to any contrary stipulations which may be provided 
for in the present Treaty, the' Allied and Associated Powers reserve 
the right to retain and liquidate all property, rights and interests 
belonging at the date of the coining into force of the present Treaty 
to German nationals, or companies controlled by them, within their 
territories, colonies, possessions and protectorates, including terri- 
tories ceded to them by the present Treaty. 

The liquidation shall be carried out in accordance with the laws 
of the Allied or Associated State concerned, and the German owner 
shall not be able to dispose of such property, rights or interests nor 
to subject them to any charge without the consent of that State. 

German nationals who acquire ipso facto the nationality of an 
Allied or Associated Power in accordance with the provisions of 
the present Treaty will not be considered as German nationals within 
the meaning of this paragraph. 

{<■) The price or the amount of compensation in respect of the 
exercise of the right referred to in the preceding paragraph (b) will 
be fixed in accordance with the methods of sale or valuation adopted 
by the laws of the country in which the property has been retained 
or liquidated. 

(d) As between the Allied and Associated Powers or their nation- 
als on the one hand and Germany or her nationals on the other hand, 
all the exceptional war measures, or measures of transfer, or acts 
done or to be done in execution of such measures as defined in para- 
graphs 1 and 3 of the Annex hereto shall be considered as final and 
binding upon all persons except as regards the reservations laid 
down in the present Treaty. 

(e) The nationals of Allied and Associated Powers shall be en- 
titled to compensation in respect of damage or injury inflicted upon 
their property, rights or interests, including any company or asso- 
ciation in which they are interested, in German territory as it ex- 
isted on August 1, 1914. by the application either of the exceptional war 
measures or measures of transfer mentioned in paragraphs 1 and 3 of 
the Annex hereto. The claims made in this respect by such nationals 
shall be investigated, and the total of the compensation shall be de- 
termined by the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal provided for in Section 



76 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

VI or by an Arbitrator appointed by that Tribunal. This compen- 
sation shall be borne by Germany, and may be charged upon the 
property of German nationals within the territory or under the con- 
trol of the claimant's State. This property may be constituted as 
a pledge for enemy liabilities under the conditions fixed by para- 
graph 4 of the Annex hereto. The payment of this compensation 
may be made by the Allied or Associated State, and the amount will 
be debited to Germany. 

(/) Whenever a national of an Allied or Associated Power is 
entitled to property which has been subjected to a measure of 
transfer in German territory and expresses a desire for its restitu- 
tion, his claim for compensation in accordance with paragraph (e) 
shall be satisfied by the restitution of the said propertj^ if it still 
exists in specie. 

In such case Germany shall take all necessary steps to restore 
the evicted owner to the possession of his property, free from all 
encumbrances or burdens with which it may have been charged 
after the liquidation, and to indemnify all third parties injured 
by the restitution. 

If the restitution provided for in this paragraph cannot be effected r 
private agreements arranged by the intermediation of the Powers 
concerned or the Clearing Offices provided for in the Annex to 
Section III may be made, in order to secure that the national of 
the Allied or Associated Power may secure compensation for the 
injury referred to in paragraph (e) by the grant of advantages 
or equivalents which he agrees to accept in place of the property, rights 
or interests of which he was deprived. 

Through restitution in accordance with this Article, the price or 
the amount of compensation fixed by the application of paragraph 
(e) will be reduced by the actual value of the property restored, 
account being taken of compensation in respect of loss of use or 
deterioration. 

(g) The rights conferred by paragraph (/) are reserved to owners 
who are nationals of Allied or Associated Powers within whose 
territory legislative measures prescribing the general liquidation 
of enemy property, rights or interests were not applied before the 
signature of the Armistice. 

(h) Except in cases where, by application of paragraph (/), resti- 
tutions in specie have been made, the net proceeds of sales of enemy 
property, rights or interests wherever situated carried out either by 
virtue of war legislation, or by application of this Article, and in 
general all cash assets of enemies, shall be dealt with as follows: 

(1) As regards Powers adopting Section III and the Annex 
thereto, the said proceeds and cash assets shall be credited to the 
Power of which the owner is a national, through the Clearing Office 
established thereunder; any credit balance in favour of Germany 
resulting therefrom shall be dealt with as provided in Article 243. 

(2) As regards Powers not adopting Section III and the Annex 
thereto, the proceeds of the property, rights and interests, and the 
cash assets, of the nationals of Allied or Associated Powers held by 
Germany shall be paid immediately to the person entitled thereto- 
or to his Government; the proceeds of the property, rights and in- 
terests, and the cash assets, of German nationals received by an 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 77 

Allied or Associated Power shall be subject to disposal b^y such 
Power in accordance with its laws and regulations and may be 
applied in payment of the claims and debts defined by this Article 
or paragraph 4 of the Annex hereto. Any property, rights and in- 
terests or proceeds thereof or cash assets not used as above provided 
may be retained by the said Allied or Associated Power and if re- 
tained the cash value thereof shall be dealt with as provided in 
Article 243. 

In the case of liquidations effected in new States, which are signa- 
tories of the present Treaty as Allied and Associated Powers, or in 
States which are not entitled to share in the reparation payments to 
be made by Germany, the proceeds of liquidations effected by such 
States shall, subject to the rights of the Reparation Commission 
under the present Treaty, particularly under Articles 235 and 260. 
be paid direct to the owner. If on the application of that owner, 
the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal, provided for by Section VI of this 
Part, or an arbitrator appointed by that Tribunal, is satisfied that 
the conditions of the sale or measures taken by the Government of 
the State in question outside its general legislation were unfairly 
prejudicial to the price obtained, they shall have discretion to award 
to the owner equitable compensation to be paid by that State. 

(i) Germany undertakes to compensate her nationals in respect 
of the sale or retention of their property, rights or interests in Allied 
or Associated States. 

(;/') The amount of all taxes and imposts upon capital levied or to 
be levied by Germany on the property, rights and interests of the 
nationals of the Allied or Associated Powers from November 11, 
1 918, until three months from the coming into force of the present 
Treaty, or, in the case of property, rights or interests which have 
been subjected to exceptional measures of war, until restitution in 
accordance with the present Treaty, shall be restored to the owners. 

Article 298. 

Germany undertakes, with regard to the property, rights and in- 
terests, including companies and associations in which they were 
interested, restored to nationals of Allied and Associated Powers in 
accordance with the provisions of Article 297, paragraph (a) or (/) : 

(a) to restore and maintain, except as expressly provided in the 
present Treaty, the property, rights and interests of the nationals of 
Allied or Associated Powers in the legal position obtaining in respect 
of the property, rights and interests of German nationals under the 
laws in force before the war ; 

(b) not to subject the property, rights or interests of the nationals 
of the Allied or Associated Powers to any measures in derogation of 
property rights which are not applied equally to the property, rights 
and interests of German nationals, and to pay adequate compensation 
in the event of the application of these measures. 



78 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

ANNEX. 
1. 

In accordance with (he provisions of Article "2!>7, paragraph (d), 
the validity of vesting orders and of orders for the winding up oi 
businesses or companies, and of any other orders, directions, decisions 
or instructions of any court or any department of the Government 
of any of the High Contracting Parties made or given, or purporting 
to be made or given, in pursuance of war legislation with regard to 
enemy property, rights and interests is confirmed. The interests of 
all persons shall be regarded as having been effectively dealt with by 
any order, direction, decision or instruction dealing with property in 
which they may be interested, whether or not such interests are 
specifically mentioned in the order, direction, decision, or instruction. 
No question shall be raised as to the regularity of a transfer of any 
property, rights or interests dealt with in pursuance of any such order, 
direction, decision or instruction. Every action taken with regard to 
any property, business, or company, whether as regards its investiga- 
tion, sequestration, compulsory administration, use, requisition, super- 
vision, or winding up. the sale or management of property, rights or 
interests, the collection or discharge of debts, the payment of costs. 
charges or expenses, or any other matter whatsoever, in pursuance of 
orders, directions, decisions, or instructions of any court or of any 
department of the Government of any of the High Contracting 
Parties, made or given, or purporting to be made or given, in pur- 
suance of war legislation with regard to enemy property, rights <>r 
interests, is confirmed. Provided that the provisions of this para- 
graph shall not be held to prejudice the titles to property heretofore 
acquired in good faith and for value and in accordance with the laws 
of the country in which the property is situated by nationals of the 
Allied and Associated Powers. 

The provisions of this paragraph do not apply to such of the 
above-mentioned measures as have been taken by the German authori- 
ties in invaded or occupied territory, nor to such of the above men- 
tioned measures as have been taken by Germany or the German 
authorities since November 11, 1918. all of which shall be void. 



No claim or action shall be made or brought against any Allied or 
Associated Power or against any person acting on behalf of or under 
the direction of any legal authority or Department of the Govern- 
ment of such a Pow T er by Germany or by any German national 
wherever resident in respect of any act or omission with regard to 
his property, rights or interests during the war or in preparation 
for the war. Similarl}- no claim or action shall be made or brought 
against any person in respect of any act or omission under or in 
accordance with the exceptional war measures, law 7 s or regulations 
of anv Allied or Associated Power. 



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In Article 297 and this Annex the expression "exceptional war 
measures" includes measures of all kinds, legislative, administrative, 
judicial or others, that have been taken or will be taken hereafter 
with regard to enemy property, and which have had or will have 
the effect of removing from the proprietors the power of disposition 
over their property, though without affecting the ownership, such 
as measures of supervision, of compulsory administration, and of 
sequestration; or measures which have had or will have as an object 
the seizure of, the use of, or the interference with enemy assets, 
for whatsoever motive, under whatsoever form or in whatsoever 
place. Acts in the execution of these measures include all detentions, 
instructions, orders or decrees of Government departments or courts 
applying these measures to enemy property, as well as acts per- 
formed by any person connected with the administration or the 
supervision of enemy property, such as the payment of debts, the 
collecting of credits, the payment of any costs, charges or expenses, 
or the collecting of fees. 

Measures of transfer are those which have affected or will affect 
the ownership of enemy property by transferring it in whole or in 
part to a person other than the enemy owner, and without his con- 
sent, such as measures directing the sale, liquidation, or devolution 
of ownership in enemy property, or the cancelling of titles or 
securities. 



All property, rights and interests of German nationals within the 
territory of any Allied or Associated Power and the net proceeds of 
their sale, liquidation or other dealing therewith may be charged 
by that Allied or Associated Power in the first place with payment 
of amounts due in respect of claims by the nationals of that Allied 
or Associated Power with regard to their property, rights and inter- 
ests, including companies and associations in which they are inter- 
ested, in German territory, or debts owing to them by German na- 
tionals, and with payment of claims growing out of acts committed 
by the German Government or by any German authorities since July 
31, 1914, and before that Allied or Associated Power entered into 
the war. The amount of such claims may be assessed by an arbitrator 
appointed by Mr. Gustave Ador, if he is willing, or if no such ap- 
pointment is made by him. by an arbitrator appointed by the Mixed 
Arbitral Tribunal provided for in Section VI. They may be charged 
in the second place with payment of the amounts due in respect of 
claims by the nationals of such Allied or Associated Power with re- 
gard to their property, rights and interests in the territory of other 
enemy Powers, in so far as those claims are otherwise unsatisfied. 



Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 297, where immediately 
before the outbreak of war a company incorporated in an Allied or 
Associated State had rights in common with a company controlled 



SO TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

by it and incorporated in Germany to the use of trade-marks in third 
countries, or enjoyed the use in common with such company of unique 
means of reproduction of goods or articles for sale in third countries, 
the former company shall alone have the right to use these trade- 
marks in third countries to the exclusion of the German company, 
and these unique means of reproduction shall be handed over to the 
former company, notwithstanding any action taken under German 
war legislation with regard to the latter company or its business, 
industrial property or shares. Nevertheless, the former company, 
if requested, shall deliver the latter company derivative copies per- 
mitting the continuation of reproduction of articles for use within 
German territory. 

G. 

Up to the time when restitution is carried out in accordance with 
Article 297, Germany is responsible for the conservation of property, 
rights and interests of the nationals of Allied or Associated Powers, 
including companies and associations in which they are interested, 
that have been subjected by her to exceptional war measures. 

7. 

Within one year from the coming into force of the present Treaty 
the Allied or Associated Powers will specify the property, rights 
and interests over which they intend to exercise the right provided 
in Article 297, paragraph (/). 

8. 

The restitution provided in Article 297 will be carried out by order 
of the German Government or of the authorities which have been 
substituted for it. Detailed accounts of the action of administrators 
shall be furnished to the interested persons by the German authori- 
ties upon request, which may be made at any time after the coming 
into force of the present Treaty. 



Until completion of the liquidation provided for by Article 297, 
paragraph (6) , the property, rights and interests of German nationals 
will continue to be subject to exceptional war measures that have 
been or will be taken with regard to them. 

10. 

Germany will, within six months from the coming into force of the 
present Treaty, deliver to each Allied or Associated Power all se- 
curities, certificates, deeds, or other documents of title held by its 
nationals and relating to property, rights or interests situated in the 
territory of that Allied or Associated Power, including any shares, 
stock, debentures, debenture stock, or other obligations of any com- 
pany incorporated in accordance with the laws of that Power. 

Germany will at any time on demand of any Allied or Associated 
Power furnish such information as may be required with regard to 



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the property, rights and interests of German nationals within the 
territory of such Allied or Associated Power, or with regard to any 
transactions concerning such property, rights or interests effected 
since July 1, 1914. 

11. 

The expression " cash assets " includes all deposits or funds estab- 
lished before or after the declaration of war, as well as all assets 
coming from deposits, revenues, or profits collected by adminis- 
trators, sequestrators, or others from funds placed on deposit or 
otherwise, but does not include sums belonging to the Allied or 
Associated Powers or to their component States, Provinces, or 
Municipalities. 

12. 

All investments wheresoever effected with the cash assets of 
nationals of the High Contracting Parties, including companies 
and associations in which such nationals were interested, by persons 
responsible for the administration of enemy properties or having 
control over such administration, or by order of such persons or 
of any authority whatsoever shall be annulled. These cash assets 
shall be accounted for irrespective of any such investment. 

13. 

Within one month from the coming into force of the present 
Treaty, or on demand at any time, Germany will deliver to the Allied 
and Associated Powers all accounts, vouchers, records, documents 
and information of any kind which may be within German territory, 
and which concern the property, rights and interests of the nationals 
of those Powers, including companies and associations in which they 
are interested, that have been subjected to an exceptional war meas- 
ure, or to a measure of transfer either in German territory or in 
territory occupied by Germany or her allies. 

The contollers, supervisors, managers, administrators, sequestra- 
tors, liquidators and receivers shall be personally responsible under 
guarantee of the German Government for the immediate delivery in 
full of these accounts and documents, and for their accuracy. 

14. 

The provisions of Article 297 and this Annex relating to property, 
rights and interests in an enemy county, and the proceeds of the 
liquidation thereof, apply to debts, credits and accounts, Section III 
regulating only the method of payment. 

In the settlement of matters provided for in Article 297 between 
Germany and the Allied or Associated States, their colonies or pro- 
tectorates, or any one of the British Dominions or India, in respect 
of any of which a declaration shall not have been made that they 
adopt Section III, and between their respective nationals, the pro- 
visions of Section III respecting the currentcy in which payment 
is to be made and the rate of exchange and of interest shall apply 
unless the Government of the Allied or Associated Power cone erneel 
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shall within six months of the coming into force of the present 
Treaty notify Germany that the said provisions are not to be applied. 

15. 

The provisions of Article 297 and this Annex apply to industrial, 
literary and artistic property which has been oi will be dealt with in 
the liquidation of property, rights, interests, companies or businesses 
under war legislation by the Allied or Associated Powers, or in ac- 
cordance witli the stipulations of Article 297, paragraph (b). 

Section V. 

CONTRACTS, PRESCRIPTIONS, JUDGMENTS. 

Article 299. 

(a) Any contract concluded between enemies shall be regarded as 
having been dissolved as from the time when any two of the 
parties became enemies, except in respect of any debt or other pe- 
cuniary obligation arising out of any act done or money paid there- 
under, and subject to the exceptions and special rules with regard 
to particular contracts or classes of contracts contained herein or 
in the Annex hereto. 

(b) Any contract of which the execution shall be required in the 
general interest, within six months from the date of the coming 
into force of the present Treaty, by the Allied or Associated Gov- 
ernments of which one of the parties is a national, shall be excepted 
from dissolution under this Article. 

When the execution of the contract thus kept alive would, owing 
to the alteration of trade conditions, cause one of the parties sub- 
stantial prejudice the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal provided for by 
Section VI shall be empowered to grant to the prejudiced party 
equitable compensation. 

(<?) Having regard to the provisions of the constitution and law 
of the United States of America, of Brazil, and of Japan, neither 
the present Article, nor Article 300, nor the Annex hereto shall ap- 
ply to contracts made between nationals of these States and German 
nationals; nor shall Article 305 apply to the United States of 
America or its nationals. 

(d) The present Article and the annex hereto shall not apply to 
contracts the parties to which became enemies by reason of one of 
them being an inhabitant of territory of which the sovereignty has 
been transferred, if such party shall acquire under the present 
Treaty the nationality of an Allied or Associated Power, nor shall 
they apply to contracts between nationals of the Allied and Asso- 
ciated Powers between whom trading has been prohibited by reason 
of one of the parties being in Allied or Associated territory in the 
occupation of the enemy. 

(e) Nothing in the present Article or the annex hereto shall be 
deemed to invalidate a transaction lawfully carried out in accordance 
with a contract between enemies if it has been carried out with the 
authority of one of the belligerent Powers. 



TKEATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 83 

Article 300. 

(a) All periods of prescription, or limitation of right of action, 
whether they began to run before or after the outbreak of war, shall 
be treated in the territory of the High Contracting Parties, so far as 
regards relations between enemies, as having been suspended for the 
duration of the war. They shall begin to run again at earliest three 
months after the coming into force of the present Treaty. This pro- 
vision shall apply to the period prescribed for the presentation of 
interest or dividend coupons or for the presentation for repayment of 
securities drawn for repayment or repayable on any other ground. 

(b) Where, on account of failure to perform any act or comply 
with any formality during the war, measures of execution have been 
taken in German territory to the prejudice of a national of an Allied 
or Associated Power, the claim of such national shall, if the matter 
does not fall within the competence of the Courts of an Allied or As- 
sociated Power, be heard by the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal provided 
for by Section VI. 

(c) Upon the application of any interested person who is a national 
of an Allied or Associated Power the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal shall 
order the restoration of the rights which have been prejudiced by the 
measures of execution referred to in paragraph (Z>), wherever, having 
regard to the particular circumstances of the case, such restoration is 
equitable and possible. 

If such restoration is inequitable or impossible the Mixed Arbitral 
Tribunal may grant compensation to the prejudiced party to be paid 
by the German Government. 

(d) Where a contract between enemies has been dissolved by rea- 
son either of failure on the part of either party to carry out its pro- 
visions or of the exercise of a right stipulated in the contract itself 
the party prejudiced may apply to the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal 
for relief. The Tribunal will have the powers provided for in para- 
graph (c.) 

(e) The provisions of the preceding paragraphs of this Article 
shall apply to the nationals of Allied and Associated Powers who 
have been prejudiced by reason of measures referred to above taken 
by Germany in invaded or occupied territory, if they have not been 
otherwise compensated. 

(/) Germany shall compensate any third party who may be preju- 
diced by any restitution or restoration ordered by the Mixed Arbitral 
Tribunal under the provisions of the preceding paragraphs of this 
Article. 

(g) As regards negotiable instruments, the period of three months 
provided under paragraph {a) shall commence as from the date on 
which any exceptional regulations applied in the territories of the 
interested Power with regard to negotiable instruments shall have 
definitely ceased to have force. 

Article 301, 

As between enemies no negotiable instrument made before the war 
shall be deemed to have become invalid by reason only of failure 
within the required time to present the instrument for acceptance or 
payment or to give notice of non-acceptance or non-payment to 



84 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

drawers or indorsers or to protest the instrument, nor by reason of 
failure to complete any formality during the war. 

Where the period within which a negotiable instrument should have 
been presented for acceptance or for payment, or within which notice 
of non-acceptance or non-payment should have been given to the 
drawer or indorser, or within which the instrument should have been 
protested, has elapsed during the war, and the party who should have 
presented or protested the instrument or have given notice of non- 
acceptance or non-payment has failed to do so during the war, a 
period of not less than three months from the coming into force of 
the present Treaty shall be allowed within which presentation, notice 
of non-acceptance or non-payment or protest may be made. 

Article 302. 

Judgments given by the Courts of an Allied or Associated Power in 
fill cases which, under the present Treaty, they are competent to 
decide, shall be recognised in Germany as final, and shall be enforced 
without it being necessary to have them declared executory. 

If a judgment in respect to any dispute which may have arisen 
has been given during the war by a German Court against a national 
of an Allied or Associated State in a case in which he was not able 
to make his defence, the Allied and Associated national who has 
suffered prejudice thereby shall be entitled to recover compensation, 
to be fixed by the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal provided for in Sec- 
tion VI. 

At the instance of the national of the Allied or Associated Power 
the compensation above-mentioned may, upon order to that effect 
of the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal, be effected where it is possible by 
replacing the parties in the situation which they occupied before the 
judgment was given by the German Court. 

The above compensation may likewise be obtained before the 
Mixed Arbitral Tribunal by the nationals of Allied or Associated 
Powers who have suffered prejudice by judicial measures taken in 
invaded or occupied territories, if they have not been otherwise 
compensated. 

Article 303. 

For the purpose of Sections III, IV, V and VII, the expression 
" during the war " means for each Allied or Associated Power the 
period between the commencement of the state of war between that 
Power and Germany and the coming into force of the present Treaty. 



ANNEX. 

I. General Provisions. 

1. 

Within the meaning of Articles 299, 300 and 301, the parties to a 
contract shall be regarded as enemies when trading between them 
shall have been prohibited by or otherwise became unlawful under 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 85 

laws, orders or regulations to which one of those parties was subject. 
The}' shall be deemed to have become enemies from the date when 
such trading was prohibited or otherwise became unlawful. 



The following classes of contracts are excepted from dissolution 
by Article 299 and, without prejudice to the rights contained in 
Article 297 (b) of Section IV, remain in force subject to the applica- 
tion of domestic laws, orders or regulations made during the war by 
the Allied and Associated Powers and subject to the terms of the 
contracts : 

(a) Contracts having for their object the transfer of estates or of 
real or personal property where the property therein had passed or 
the object had been delivered before the parties became enemies; 

(5) Leases and agreements for leases of land and houses; 

(c) Contracts of mortgage, pledge or lien; 

(d) Concessions concerning mines, quarries or deposits; 

(e) Contracts between individuals or companies and States, prov- 
inces, municipalities, or other similar juridical persons charged with 
administrative functions, and concessions granted by States, prov- 
inces, municipalites, or other similar juridical persons charged with 
administrative functions. 

3. 

If the provisions of a contract are in part dissolved under Article 
299, the remaining provisions of that contract shall, subject to the 
same application of domestic laws as is provided for in paragraph 
2, continue in force if they are severable, but where they are not 
severable the contract shall be deemed to have been dissolved in its 
entirety. 

II. Provisio/is relating to certain classes of Contracts. 

Stock Exchange and Commercial Exchange Contracts. 

4. 

(a) Enles made during the war by any recognised Exchange or 
Commercial Association providing for the closure of contracts en- 
tered into before the war by an enemy are confirmed by the High 
Contracting Parties, as also any action taken thereunder, provided : 

(1) That the contract was expressed to be made subject to the 
rules of the Exchange or Association in question; 

(2) That the rules applied to all persons concerned; 

(3) That the conditions attaching to the closure were fair and 
reasonable. 

(b) The preceding paragraph shall not apply to rules made dur- 
ing the occupation by Exchanges or Commercial Associations in the 
districts occupied by the enemy. 

(c) The closure of contracts relating to cotton "futures", which 
were closed as on July 31. 1914, under the decision of the Liverpool 
Cotton Association, is also confirmed. 



86 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

Security. 



The sale of a security held for an unpaid debt owing by an enemy 
shall be deemed to have been valid irrespective of notice to- the owner 
if the creditor acted in good faith and with reasonable care and 
prudence, and no claim by the debtor on the ground of such sale shall 
be admitted. 

This stipulation shall not apply to any sale of securities effected by 
an enemy during the occupation in regions invaded or occupied by the 
enemy. 

Negotiable Instruments. 

6. 

As regards Powers which adopt Section III and the Annex thereto 
t he pecuniary obligations existing between enemies and resulting from 
the issue of negotiable instruments shall be adjusted in conformity 
with the said Annex by the instrumentality of the Clearing Offices, 
which shall assume the rights of the holder as regards the various 
remedies open to him. 

7. 

1 f a person lias either before or during the war become liable upon 
a negotiable instrument in accordance with an undertaking given to 
him by a person who has subsequently become an enemy, the latter 
shall remain liable to indemnify the former in respect of his liability 
notwithstanding the outbreak of war. 

III. Contracts of Insurance. 



Contracts of insurance entered into by any person with another 
person who subsequently became an enemy wll be dealt with in 
accordance with the following paragraphs. 

Pire Insurance. 

9. 

Contracts for the insurance of property against fire entered into 
by a person interested in such property with another person Avho 
subsequently became an enemy shall not be deemed to have been 
dissolved by the outbreak of war, or by the fact of the person be- 
coming an enemy, or on account of the failure during the war and 
for a period of three months thereafter to perform his obligations 
under the contract, but they shall be dissolved at the date when the 
annual premium becomes payable for the first time after the expira- 
tion of a period of three months after the coming into force of the 
present Treaty. 



TKEATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 87 

A settlement shall be effected of unpaid premiums which became 
due during the war, or of claims for losses which occurred during 
the war. 

10. 

Where by administrative or legislative action an insurance against 
fire effected before the war has been transferred during the war from 
the original to another insurer, the transfer will be recognised and 
the liability of the original insurer will be deemed to have ceased 
as from the date of the transfer. The original insurer will, however, 
be entitled to receive on demand full information as to the terms of 
the transfer, and if it should appear that these terms were not equit- 
able they shall be amended so far as may be necessary to render 
them equitable. 

Furthermore, the insured shall, subject to the concurrence of the 
original insurer, be entitled to retransfer the contract to the original 
insurer as 4 from the date of the demand. 

Life Insurance. 

11. 

Contracts of life insurance entered into between an insurer and a 
person who subsequently became an enemy shall not be deemed to 
have been dissolved by the outbreak of war, or by the fact of the 
person becoming an enemy. 

Any sum which during the war became due upon a contract deemed 
not to have been dissolved under the preceding provision shall be 
recoverable after the war with the addition of interest at five per 
cent, per annum from the date of its becoming due up to the day of 
payment. 

Where the contract has lapsed during the war owing to non-pay- 
ment of premiums, or has become void from breach of the conditions 
of the contract, the assured or his representatives or the person en- 
titled shall have the right at any time within twelve months of the 
coming into force of the present Treaty to claim from the insurer the 
surrender value of the policy at the date of its lapse or avoidance. 

Where the contract has lapsed during the war owing to non-pay- 
ment of premiums the payment of which has been prevented by the 
enforcement of measures of war, the assured or his representative or 
the persons entitled shall have the right to restore the contract on 
payment of the premiums with interest at five per cent, per annum 
within three months from the coming into force of the present 
Treaty. 

12. 

Any Allied or Associated Power may within three months of the 
coming into force of the present Treaty cancel all the contracts of 
insurance running between a German insurance company and its na- 
tionals under conditions which shall protect its nationals from any 
prejudice. 

To this end the German insurance company will hand over to the 
Allied or Associated Government concerned the proportion of its 



88 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

assets attributable to the policies so cancelled and will be relieved 
from all liability in respect of such policies. The assets to be 
handed over shall be determined by an actuary appointed by the 
Mixed Arbitral Tribunal. 

13. 

Where contracts of life insurance have been entered into by a local 
branch of an insurance company established in a country which sub- 
sequently became an enemy country, the contract shall, in the absence 
of any stipulation to the contrary in the contract itself, be governed 
by the local law, but the insurer shall be entitled to demand from the 
insured or his representatives the refund of sums paid on claims 
made or enforced under measures taken during the war, if the making 
or enforcement of such claims was not in accordance with the terms 
of the contract itself or was not consistent with the laws or treaties 
existing at the time when it was entered into. 

14. 

In any case where by the law applicable to the contract the insurer 
remains bound by the contract notwithstanding the non-payment of 
premiums until notice is given to the insured of the termination of 
the contract, he shall be entitled where the giving of such notice was 
prevented by the war to recover the unpaid premiums with interest at 
five per cent, per annum from the insured. 

15. 

Insurance contracts shall be considered as contracts of life assurance 
for the purpose of paragraphs 11 to 14 when they depend on the 
probabilities of human life combined with the rate of interest for 
the calculation of the reciprocal engagements between the two parties. 

Marine Insurance. 
16. 

Contracts of marine insurance including time policies and voyage 
policies entered into between an insurer and a person who subse- 
quently became an enemy, shall be deemed to have been dissolved 
on his becoming an enemy, except in cases where the risk undertaken 
in the contract had attached before he became an enemy. 

Where the risk had not attached, money paid by way of premium 
or otherwise shall be recoverable from the insurer. 

Where the risk had attached effect shall be given to the contract 
notwithstanding the party becoming an enemy, and sums due under 
the contract either by way of premiums or in respect of losses shall be 
recoverable after the coming into force of the present Treaty. 

In the event of any agreement being come to for the payment of 
interest on sums due before the war to or by the nationals of States 
which have been at war and recovered after the war, such interest 
shall in the case of losses recoverable under contracts of marine in- 
surance run from the expiration of a period of one year from the 
date of the loss. 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 89 

17. 

No contract of marine insurance with an insured person who subse- 
quently became an enemy shall be deemed to cover losses due to bel- 
ligerent action by the Power of which the insurer was a national or 
by the allies or associates of such Power. 

18. 

Where it is shown that a person who had before the war entered 
into a contract of marine insurance with an insurer who subsequently 
became an enemy entered after the outbreak of war into a new con- 
tract covering the same risk with an insurer who was not an enemy, 
the new contract shall be deemed to be substituted for the original 
contract as from the date when it was entered into, and the premiums 
payable shall be adjusted on the basis of the original insurer having 
remained liable on the contract only up till the time when the new 
contract was entered into. 

Other Insurances. 

19. 

Contracts of insurance entered into before the war between an 
insurer and a person who subsequently became an enemy, other than 
contracts dealt with in paragraphs 9 to 18, shall be treated in all 
respects on the same footing as contracts of fire insurance between the 
same persons would be dealt with under the said paragraphs. 

Re-insurance. 

20. 

All treaties of re-insurance with a person who became an enemy 
shall be regarded as having been abrogated by the person becoming 
an enemy, but without prejudice in the case of life or marine risks 
which had attached before the war to the right to recover payment 
after the war for sums due in respect of such risks. 

Nevertheless if, owing to invasion, it has been impossible for the 
re-insured to find another re-insurer, the treaty shall remain in force 
until three months after the coming into force of the present Treaty. 

Where a re-insurance treaty becomes void under this paragraph, 
there shall be an adjustment of accounts between the parties in 
respect both of premiums paid and payable and of liabilities for 
losses in respect of life or marine risks which had attached before the 
war. In the case of risks other than those mentioned in paragraphs 
11 to 18 the adjustment of accounts shall be made as at the date of 
the parties becoming enemies without regard to claims for losses 
which may have occurred since that date. 

21. 

The provisions of the preceding paragraph will extend equally 
to re-insurances existing at the date of the parties becoming enemies, 



90 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

of particular risks undertaken by the insurer in a contract of in- 
surance against any risks other than life or marine risks. 

22. 

Re-insurance of life risks effected by particular contracts and not 
under any general treaty remain in force. 

The provisions of paragraph 12 apply to treaties of re-insurance 
of life insurance contracts in which enemy companies are the re-in- 
surers. 

23. 

In case of a re-insurance effected before the war of a contract of 
marine insurance, the cession of a risk which had been ceded to the 
re-insurer shall, if it had attached before the outbreak of war, re- 
main valid and effect be given to the contract notwithstanding the 
outbreak of war; sums due under the contract of re-insurance in 
respect either of premiums or of losses shall be recoverable after the 
war. 

24. 

The provisions of paragraphs 17 and 18 and the last part of para- 
graph 16 shall apply to contracts for the re-insurance of marine 
risks. 

Section VI. 

MIXED ARBITRAL TRIBUNAL. 

Article 304. 

(a) Within three months from the date of the coming into force 
of the present Treaty, a Mixed Arbitral Tribunal shall be established 
between each of the Allied and Associated Powers on the one hand 
and Germany on the other hand. Each such Tribunal shall consist 
of three members. Each of the Governments concerned shall ap- 
point one of these members. The President shall be chosen by agree- 
ment between the two Governments concerned. 

In case of failure to reach agreement, the President of the Tribunal 
and two other persons either of whom may in case of need take his 
place, shall be chosen by the Council of the League of Nations, or, 
until this is set up, by M. Gustave Ador if he is willing. These per- 
sons shall be nationals of Powers that have remained neutral during 
the war. 

If any Government does not proceed within a period of one month 
in case there is a vacancy to appoint a member of the Tribunal, such 
member shall be chosen by the other Government from the two per- 
sons mentioned above other than the President. 

The decision of the majority of the members of the Tribunal shall 
be the decision of the Tribunal. 

(b) The Mixed Arbitral Tribunals established pursuant to para- 
o-raph (a), shall decide all questions within their competence under 
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In addition, all questions, whatsoever their nature, relating to 
contracts concluded before the coining into force of the present 
Treaty between nationals of the Allied and Associated Powers and 
German nationals shall be decided by the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal, 
always excepting questions which, under the laws of the Allied, 
Associated or Neutral Powers, are within the jurisdiction of the 
National Courts of those Powers. Such questions shall be decided 
by the National Courts in question, to the exclusion of the Mixed 
Arbitral Tribunal. The party who is a national of an Allied or 
Associated Power may nevertheless bring the case before the Mixed 
Arbitral Tribunal if this is not prohibited by the laws of his country. 

(c) If the number of cases justifies it, additional members shall 
be appointed and each Mixed Arbitral Tribunal shall sit in divi- 
sions. Each of these divisions will bo constituted as above. 

(d) Each Mixed Arbitral Tribunal will settle its own procedure 
except in so far as it is provided in the following Annex, and is 
empowered to award the sums to be paid by the loser in respect 
of the costs and expenses of the proceedings. 

(e) Each Government will pay the remuneration of the member 
of the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal appointed by it and of any agent 
whom it may appoint to represent it before the Tribunal. The 
remuneration of the President will be determined by special agree- 
ment between the Governments concerned; and this remuneration 
and the joint expenses of each Tribunal will be paid by the two Gov- 
ernments in equal moieties. 

(/) The High Contracting Parties agree that their courts and 
authorities shall render to the Mixed Arbitral Tribunals direct all 
the assistance in their power, particularly as regards transmitting 
notices and collecting evidence. 

((/) The High Contracting Parties agree to regard the decisions of 
the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal as final and conclusive, and to render 
them binding upon their nationals. 

ANNEX. 



Should one of the members of theTribunal either die, retire, or be 
unable for any reason whatever to discharge his function, the same 
procedure will be followed for filling the vacanacy as was followed* 
for appointing him. 

2. 

The Tribunal may adopt such rules of procedure as shall be in 
accordance with justice and equity and decide the order and time at 
which each party must conclude its arguments, and may arrange all 
formalities required for dealing with the evidence. 

3. 

The agent and counsel of the parties on each side are authorized to 
present orally and in writing to the Tribunal arguments in support 
or in defence of each rase. 



92 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 



The Tribunal shall keep record of the questions and cases sub- 
mitted and the proceedings thereon, with the dates of such proceed- 
ings. 

5. 

Each of the Powers concerned may appoint a secretary. These 
secretaries shall act together as joint secretaries of the Tribunal and 
shall be subject to its direction. The Tribunal may appoint and 
employ any other necessary officer or officers to assist in the perform- 
ance of its duties. 

6. 

The Tribunal shall decide all questions and matters submitted 
upon such evidence and information as may be furnished b.y the 
parties concerned. 



Germany agrees to give the Tribunal all facilities and informa- 
tion required by it for carrying out its investigations. 



The language in which the proceedings shall be conducted shall., 
unless otherwise agreed, be English, French, Italian or Japanese, as 
may be determined by the Allied or Associated Power concerned. 



The place and time for the meetings of each Tribunal shall be 
determined by the President of the Tribunal. 

Article 305. 

Whenever a competent court has given or gives a decision in a 
case covered by Sections III, IV, V or VII, and such decision is in- 
consistent with the provisions of such Sections, the party who is 
prejudiced by the decision shall be entitled to obtain redress which 
shall be fixed by the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal. At the request of 
the national of an Allied or Associated Power, the redress may, 
whenever possible, be effected by the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal direct- 
ing the replacement of the parties in the position occupied by them 
before the judgment was given by the German court. 

Section VII. 

INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY. 

Article 306. 

Subject to the stipulations of the present Treaty, rights of in- 
dustrial, literary and artistic property, as such property is defined 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 93 

by the International Conventions of Paris and of Berne, mentioned 
in Article 286, shall be re-established or restored, as from the coming 
into force of the present Treaty, in the territories of the High Con- 
tracting Parties, in favour of the persons entitled to the benefit of 
them at the moment when the state of war commenced or their legal 
representatives. Equally, rights which, except for the war, would 
have been acquired during the war in consequence of an application 
made for the protection of industrial property, or the publication 
of a literary or artistic work, shall be recognised and established 
in favour of those persons who would have been entitled thereto, 
from the coming into force of the present Treaty. 

Nevertheless, all acts done by virtue of the special measures taken 
during the war under legislative, executive or administrative author- 
ity of any Allied or Associated Power in regard to the rights of 
German nationals in industrial, literary or artistic property shall 
remain in force and shall continue to maintain their full effect. 

No claim shall be made or action brought by Germany or German 
nationals in respect of the use during the war by the Government 
of any Allied or Associated Power, or by any persons acting on 
behalf or with the assent of such Government, of any rights in 
industrial, literary or artistic property, nor in respect of the sale, 
offering for sale, or use of any products, articles or apparatus what- 
soever to which such rights applied. 

Unless the legislation of any one of the Allied or Associated 
Powers in force at the moment of the signature of the present Treaty 
otherwise directs, sums due or paid in virtue of any act or operation 
resulting from the execution of the special measures mentioned in 
paragraph I of this Article shall be dealt with in the same way as 
other sums due to German nationals are directed to be dealt with 
by the present Treaty ; and sums produced by any special measures 
taken by the German Government in respect of rights in industrial, 
literary or artistic property belonging to the nationals of the Allied 
or Associated Powers shall be considered and treated in the same 
way as other debts due from German nationals. 

Each of the Allied and Associated Powers reserves to itself the 
right to impose such limitations, conditions or restrictions on rights 
of" industrial, literary or artistic property (with the exception of 
trade-marks) acquired before or during the war, or which may be 
subsequently acquired in accordance with its legislation, by German 
nationals, whether by granting licences, or by the working, or by 
preserving control over their exploitation, or in any other way, as 
ma}' be considered necessary for national defence, or in the public 
interest, or for assuring the fair treatment by Germany of the rights 
of industrial, literary and artistic property held in German terri- 
tory by its nationals, or for securing the due fulfilment of all the 
obligations undertaken by Germany in the present Treaty. As re- 
gards rights of industrial, literary and artistic property acquired 
after the coming into force of the present Treaty, the right so re- 
served by the Allied and Associated Powers shall only be exercised 
in cases where these limitations, conditions or restrictions may be 
considered necessary for national defence or in the public interest. 

In the event of the application of the provisions of the preceding 
paragraph by any Allied or Associated Power, there shall be paid 



94 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

reasonable indemnities or royalties, which shall be dealt with in the 
same way as other sums due to German nationals are directed to be 
dealt with by the present Treaty. 

Each of the Allied or Associated Powers reserves the right to 
treat as void and of no effect any transfer in whole or in part of or 
other dealing with rights of or in respect of industrial, literaiy or 
artistic property effected after August 1, 1914, or in the future, which 
would have the result of defeating the objects of the provisions of 
this Article. 

The provisions of this Article shall not apply to rights in indus- 
trial, literary or artistic property which have been dealt with in the 
liquidation of businesses or companies under war legislation by the 
Allied or Associated Powers, or which may be so dealt with by 
virtue of Article 297, paragraph (b) . 

Article 307. 

A minimum of one year after the coming into force of the present 
Treaty shall be accorded to the nationals of the High Contracting 
Parties, without extension fees or other penalty, in order to enable 
such persons to accomplish any act, fulfil any formality, pay any 
fees, and generally satisfy any obligation prescribed by the laws or 
regulations of the respective States relating to the obtaining, pre- 
serving, or opposing rights to, or in respect of, industrial property 
either acquired before August 1, 1914, or which, except for the war, 
might have been acquired since that date as a result of an applica- 
tion made before the war or during its continuance, but nothing in 
this Article shall give any right to reopen interference proceedings 
in the United States of America where a final hearing has taken 
place. 

All rights in, or in respect of, such property which may have 
lapsed by reason of any failure to accomplish any act, fulfil any 
formality, or make any payment, shall revive, but subject in the case. 
of patents and designs to the imposition of such conditions as each 
Allied or Associated Power may deem reasonably necessary for the 
protection of persons who have manufactured or made use of the 
subject matter of such property while the rights had lapsed. Fur- 
ther, where rights to patents or designs belonging to German 
nationals are revived under this Article, they shall be subject in 
respect of the grant of licences to the same provisions as would have 
been applicable to them during the war. as will as to all the pro- 
visions of the present Treaty. 

The period from August 1, 1914. until the coming into force of the 
present Treaty shall be excluded in considering the time within which 
a patent should be worked or a trade mark or design used, and it is 
further agreed that no patent, registered trade mark or design in 
force on August 1, 1914, shall be subject to revocation or cancellation 
by reason only of the failure to work such patent or use such trade 
mark or design for two years after the coming into force of the 
present Treaty. 

Article 308. 

The rights of priority, provided by Article 4 of the International 
Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of Paris, of 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 95 

March 20, 1883, revised at Washington in 1911 or by any other Con- 
vention or Statute, for the filing or registration of applications for 
patents or models of utility, and for the registration of trade marks, 
designs and models which had not expired on August 1, 1914, and 
those which have arisen during the war, or would have arisen but for 
the war, shall be extended by each of the High Contracting Parties 
in favour of all nationals of the other High Contracting Parties for 
a period of six months after the coming into force of the present 
Treaty. 

Nevertheless, such extension shall in no way affect the right of 
any of the High Contracting Parties or of any person who before 
the coining into force of the present Treaty was bond fide in posses- 
sion of any rights of industrial property conflicting with rights 
applied for by another who claims rights of priority in respect of 
them, to exercise such rights by itself or himself personally, or by 
such agents or licensees as derived their rights from it or him before 
the coming into force of the present Treaty ; and such persons shall 
not be amenable to any action or other process of law in respect of 
infringement. 

Article 309. 

No action shall be brought and no claim made by persons residing 
or carrying on business within the territories of Germany on the 
one part and of the Allied or Associated Powers on the other, or 
persons who are nationals of such Powers respectively, or by any 
one deriving title during the war from such persons, by reason of 
any action which has taken place within the territory of the other 
party between the date of the declaration of war and that of the 
coming into force of the present Treaty, which might constitute an 
infringement of the rights of industrial property or rights of lit- 
erary and artistic property, either existing at any time during the 
war or revived under the provisions of Articles 307 and 308. 

Equally, no action for infringement of industrial, literary or artis- 
tic property rights by such persons shall at any time be permissible 
in respect of the sale or offering for sale for a period of one year 
after the signature of the present Treaty in the territories of the 
Allied or Associated Powers on the one hand or Germany on the 
other, of products or articles manufactured, or of literary or artistic 
works published, during the period between the declaration of war 
and the signature of the present Treaty, or against those who have 
acquired and continue to use them. It is understood, nevertheless, 
that this provision shall not apply when the possessor of the rights 
was domiciled or had an industrial or commercial establishment in 
the districts occupied by Germany during the war. 

This Article shall not apply as betw-een the United States of 
America on the one hand and Germany on the other. 

Article 310. 

Licences in respect of industrial, literary or artistic property con- 
cluded before the war between nationals of the Allied or Associ- 
ated Powers or persons residing in their territory or carrying on 
business therein, on the one part, and German nationals, on the other 
part, shall be considered as cancelled as from the date of the dec- 



96 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

laration of war between Germany and the Allied or Associated 
Power. But, in any case, the former beneficiary of a contract of 
this kind shall have the right, within a period of six months after 
the coming into force of the present Treaty, to demand from the 
proprietor of the rights the grant of a new licence, the conditions 
of which, in default of agreement between the parties, shall be fixed 
by the duly qualified tribunal in the country under whose legisla- 
tion the rights had been acquired, except in the case of licences held 
in respect of rights acquired under German law. In such cases the 
conditions shall be fixed by the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal referred to 
in Section VI of this Part. The tribunal may, if necessary, fix also 
the amount which it may deem just should be paid by reason of the 
useVof the rights during the war. 

No licence in respect of industrial, literary or artistic property, 
granted under the special war legislation of any Allied or Associated 
Power, shall be affected by the continued existence of any licence 
entered into before the war, but shall remain valid and of full ef- 
fect, and a licence so granted to the former beneficiary of a licence 
entered into before the war shall be considered as substituted for 
such licence. 

Where sums have been paid during the war by virtue of a licence 
or agreement concluded before the war in respect of rights of in- 
dustrial property or for the reproduction or the representation of 
literary, dramatic or artistic works, these sums shall be dealt with 
in the same manner as other debts or credits of German nationals, 
as provided by the present Treaty. 

This Article shall not apply as between the United States of 
America on the one hand and Germany on the other. 

Article 311. 

The inhabitants of territories separated from Germany by virtue of 
the present Treaty shall, notwithstanding this separation and the 
change of nationality consequent thereon, continue to enjoy in Ger- 
many all the rights in industrial, literary and artistic property to 
which they were entitled under German legislation at the time of the 
separation. 

Rights of industrial, literary and artistic property which are in 
force in the territories separated from Germany under the present 
Treaty at the moment of the separation of these territories from 
Gemany, or which will be re-established or restored in accordance 
with the provisions of Article 306 of the present Treaty, shall be 
recognized by the State to which the said territory is transferred 
and shall remain in force in that territory for the same period of 
time given them under the German law. 

Section VIII. 

SOCIAL AND STATE INSURANCE IN CEDED TERRITORY. 

Article 312. 

Without prejudice to the provisions contained in other Articles of 
the present Treaty, the German Government undertakes to transfer 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 97 

to any Power to which German territory in Europe is ceded, and to 
any Power administering former German territory as a mandatory 
under Article 22 of Part T (League of Nations), such portion of 
the reserves accumulated by the Government of the German Empire 
or of German States, or by public or private organisations under 
their control, as is attributable to the carrying on of Social or State 
Insurance in such territory. 

The Powers to which these funds are transferred must apply them, 
to the performance of the obligations arising from such insurances* 

The conditions of the transfer will be determined by special con- 
ventions to be concluded between the German Government and the 
Governments concerned. 

In case these special conventions are not concluded in accordance 
with the above paragraph within three months after the coming into* 
force of the present Treaty, the conditions of transfer shall in each 
case be referred to a Commission of five members, one of whom 
shall be appointed by the German Government, one by the other 
interested Government and three by the Governing Body of the 
International Labour Office from the nationals of other States. This, 
Commission shall by majority vote within three months after 
appointment adopt recommendations for submission to the Council 
of the League of Nations, and the decisions of the Council shall 
forthwith be accepted as final by Germany and the other Govern- 
ment concerned. 

PAPT XI. 
AERIAL NAVIGATION. 

Article 313. 

The aircraft of the Allied and Associated PoAvers shall have full 
liberty of passage and landing over and in the territory and terri- 
torial waters of Germany, and shall enjoy the same privileges as; 
German aircraft, particularly in case of distress by land or sea. 

Article 314. 

The aircraft of the Allied and Associated Powers shall, while in 
transit to any foreign country whatever, enjoy the right of flying 
over the territory and territorial waters of Germany without landing, 
subject always to any regulations which may be made by Germany, 
and which shall be applicable equally to the aircraft of Germany 
and to those of the Allied and Associated countries. 

Article 315. 

All aerodromes in Germany open to national public traffic shall be 
open for the aircraft of the Allied and Associated Powers, and in 
any such aerodrome such aircraft shall be treated on a footing of 
equality with German aircraft as regards charges of every descrip- 
tion, including charges for landing and accommodation. 
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98 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

Article 316. 

Subject to the present provisions, the rights of passage, transit 
and landing, provided for in Articles 313, 314 and 315, are sub- 
ject to the observance of such regulations as Germany may con- 
sider it necessary to enact, but such regulations . shall be applied 
without distinction to German aircraft and to those of the Allied 
and Associated countries. 

Article 317. 

Certificates of nationality, airworthiness, or competency, and 
licences, issued or recognised as valid by any of the Allied or Asso- 
ciated Powers, shall be recognised in Germany as valid and as equiva- 
lent to the certificates and licences issued by Germany. 

Article 318. 

As regards internal commercial air traffic, the aircraft of the 
Allied and Associated Powers shall enjoy in Germany most favoured 
nation treatment. 

Article 319. 

Germany undertakes to enforce the necessary measures to ensure 
that all German aircraft flying over her territory shall comply with 
the Rules as to lights and signals. Rules of the Air and Rules for Air 
Traffic on and in the neighbourhood of aerodromes, which have been 
laid down in the Convention relative to Aerial Navigation concluded 
between the Allied and Associated Powers. 

Article 320. 

The obligations imposed by the preceding provisions shall re- 
main in force until January 1, 1923, unless before that date Germany 
shall have been admitted into the League of Nations or shall have 
been authorised, by consent of the Allied and Associated Powers, to 
adhere to the Convention relative to Aerial Navigation concluded 
between those Powers. 



PART XII. 

PORTS, WATERWAYS AND RAILWAYS. 

Section I. 

GENERAL PROVISIONS. 

Article 321. 

Germany undertakes to grant freedom of transit through her ter- 
ritories on the routes most convenient for international transit, 
either by rail, navigable waterway, or canal, to persons, goods, ves- 
sels, carriages, wagons and mails coming from or going to the terri- 
tories of any of the Allied and Associated Powers (whether contigu- 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 99 

ous or not) ; for this purpose the crossing of territorial waters shall 
be allowed. Such persons, goods, vessels, carriages, wagons and 
mails shall not be subjected to any transit duty or to any undue 
delays or restrictions, and shall be entitled in Germany to national 
treatment as regards charges, facilities, and all other matters. 

Goods in transit shall be exempt from all Customs or other similar 
duties. 

All charges imposed on transport in transit shall be reasonable, 
having regard to the conditions of the traffic. No charge, facility or 
restriction shall depend directly or indirectly on the ownership or on 
the nationality of the ship or other means of transport on which any 
part of the through journey has been, or is to be, accomplished. 

Article 322. 

Germany undertakes neither to impose nor to maintain any con- 
trol over transmigration traffic through her territories beyond meas- 
ures necessary to ensure that passengers are bond fide in transit; nor 
to allow any shipping company or any other private body, corpora- 
tion or person interested in the traffic to take any part whatever in, 
or to exercise any direct or indirect influence over, any administrative 
service that may be necessary for this purpose. 

Article 323. 

Germany undertakes to make no discrimination or preference, di- 
rect or indirect, in the duties, charges and prohibitions relating to 
importations into or exportations from her territories, or, subject 
to the special engagements contained in the present Treaty, in the 
charges and conditions of transport of goods or persons entering or 
leaving her territories, based on the frontier crossed ; or on the kind, 
ownership or flag of the means of transport (including aircraft) em- 
ployed; or on the original or immediate place of departure of the ves- 
sel, wagon or aircraft or other means of transport employed, or its 
ultimate or intermediate destination; or on the route of or places 
of trans-shipment on the journey; or on whether any port through 
which the goods are imported or exported is a German port or a 
port belonging to any foreign country or on whether the goods are 
imported or exported by sea, by land or by air. 

Germany particularly undertakes not to establish against the ports 
and A r essels of any of the Allied and Associated Powers any surtax 
or any direct or indirect bounty for export or import by German 
ports or vessels, or by those of another Power, for example by means 
of combined tariffs. She further undertakes that persons or goods 
passing through a port or using a vessel of any of the Allied and 
Associated Powers shall not be subjected to any formality or delay 
whatever to which such persons or goods would not be subjected if 
they passed through a German port or a port of any other Power, 
or used a German vessel or a vessel of any other Power. 

Article 324. 

All necessary administrative and te hnical measures shall be taken 
to shorten, as much as possible. th$ transmission of goods across the 



100 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

German frontiers and to ensure their forwarding and transport from 
such frontiers, irrespective of whether such goods are coming from 
or going to the territories of the Allied and Associated Powers or 
are in transit from or to those territories, under the same material 
conditions in such matters as rapidity of carriage and care en route 
as are enjoyed by other goods of the same kind carried on German 
territory under similar conditions of transport. 

In particular, the transport of perishable goods shall be promptly 
and regularly carried out, and the customs formalities shall be ef- 
fected in such a way as to allow the goods to be carried straight 
through by trains which make connection. 

Article 325. 

The seaports of the Allied and Associated Powers are. entitled to 
all favours and to all reduced tariffs granted on German railways 
or navigable waterways for the benefit of German ports or of any 
port of another Power. 

Article 326. 

Germany may not refuse to participate in the tariffs or com- 
binations of tariffs intended to secure for ports of any of the Allied 
and Associated Powers advantages similar to those granted by Ger- 
many to her own ports or the ports of any other Power. 

Section II. 

NAVIGATION. 

Chapter I. 

freedom of navigation. 

Article 327. 

The nationals of any of the Allied and Associated Powers as 
well as their vessels and property shall enjoy in all German ports 
and on the inland navigation routes of Germany the same treat- 
ment in all respects as German nationals, vessels and property. 

In particular the vessels of any one of the Allied or Associated 
Powers shall be entitled to transport goods of any description, and 
passengers, to or from any ports or places in German territory to 
which German vessels may have access, under conditions which shall 
not be more onerous than those applied in the case of national ves- 
sels; they shall be treated on a footing of equality with national 
\ essels as regards port and harbour facilities and charges of every 
description, including facilities for stationing, loading and un- 
loading, and duties and charges of tonnage, harbour, pilotage, light- 
house, quarantine, and all analogous duties and charges of whatso- 
ever nature, levied in the name of or for the profit of the Govern- 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 101 

ment, public functionaries, private individuals, corporations or es- 
tablishments of any kind. 

In the event of Germany granting a preferential regime to any of 
the Allied or Associated Powers or to any other foreign Power, this 
regime shall be extended immediately and unconditionally to all the 
Allied and Associated Powers. 

There shall be no impediment to the movement of persons or 
vessels other than those arising from prescriptions concerning cus- 
toms, police, sanitation, emigration and immigration, and those re- 
lating to the import and export of prohibited goods. Such regula- 
tions must be reasonable and uniform and must not impede traffic 
unnecessarily. 

Chapter II. 

free zones ix ports. 

Article 328. 

The free zones existing in German ports on August 1, 1914, shall 
be maintained. These free zones, and any other free zones which 
may be established in German territory by the present Treaty, shall 
be subject to the regime provided for in the following Articles. 

Goods entering or leaving a free zone shall not be subjected to any 
import or export duty, other than those provided for in Article 330. 

Vessels and goods entering a free zone may be subjected to the 
charges established to cover expenses of administration, upkeep and 
improvement of the port, as well as to the charges for the use of 
various installations, provided that these charges shall be reasonable 
having regard to the expenditure incurred, and shall be levied in the 
conditions of equality provided for in Article 327. 

Goods shall not be subjected to any other charge except a statistical 
duty which shall not exceed 1 per mille ad valorem, and which shall 
be devoted exclusively to defraying the expenses of compiling state- 
ments of the traffic in the port. 

Article 329. 

The facilities granted for the erection of warehouses, for packing 
and lor unpacking goods, shall be in accordance with trade require- 
ments for the time being. All goods allowed to be consumed in the 
free zone shall be exempt from duty, whether of excise or of any other 
description, apart from the statistical duty provided for in Article 
328 above. 

There shall be no discrimination in regard to any of the provisions 
of the present Article between persons belonging to different na- 
tionalities or between goods of different origin or destination. 

Article 330. 

Import duties may be levied on goods leaving the free zone for 
consumption in the country on the territory of which the port is 
situated. Conversely, export duties may be levied on goods com- 



102 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

ing from such country and brought into the free zone. These im- 
port and export duties shall be levied on the same basis and at the 
same rates as similar duties levied at the other Customs frontiers of 
the country concerned. On the other hand, Germany shall not levy, 
under any denomination, any import, export or transit duty on 
goods carried by land or water across her territory to or from the 
free zone from or to any other State. 

Germany shall draw up the necessary regulations to secure and 
guarantee such freedom of transit over such railways and waterways 
in her territory as normally give access to the free zone. 

Chapter III. 

CLAUSES RELATING TO THE ELBE. THE ODER, THE NIEMEN ( RUSSSTROM- 
MEMEL-NIEMEN) AM) THE DANUBE. 



(i) — General Clauses. 
Article 331. 

The following rivers are declared international: 

the Elbe (Lobe) from its confluence with the Vltava 
(Moldau), and the Vltava (Moldau) from Prague; 

the Oder (Odra) from its confluence with the Oppa; 

the Niemen (Russstrom-Memel-Niemen) from Grodno; 

the Danube from Ulm; 

and all navigable parts of these river systems which naturally 
provide more than one State with access to the sea, with or without 
transhipment from one vessel to another; together with lateral canals 
and channels constructed either to duplicate or to improve naturally 
navigable sections of the specified river systems, or to connect two 
naturally navigable sections of the same river. 

The same shall apply to the Rhine-Danube navigable waterway, 
should such a waterway be constructed under the conditions laid 
down in Article 353. 

Article 332. 

On the waterways declared to be international in the preceding 
Article, the nationals, property and flags of all Powers shall be 
treated on a footing of perfect equality, no distinction being made 
to the detriment of the nationals, property or flag of airy Power 
between them and the nationals, property or flag of the riparian 
State itself or of the most favoured nation. 

Nevertheless, German vessels shall not be entitled to carry pas- 
sengers or goods by regular services between the ports of any Allied 
or Associated Power, without special authority from such Power. 

Article 333. 

Where such charges are not precluded by any existing conven- 
tions, charges varying on different sections of a river may be levied 



TKEATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 103 

on vessels using the navigable channels or their approaches, pro- 
vided that they are intended solely to cover equitably the cost of 
maintaining in a navigable condition, or of improving, the river 
and its approaches, or to meet expenditure incurred in the interests 
of navigation. The schedule of such charges shall be calculated on 
the basis of such expenditure and shall be posted up in the ports. 
These charges shall be levied in such a manner as to render any 
detailed examination of cargoes unnecessary, except in cases o± sus- 
pected fraud or contravention. 

Article 334. 

The transit of vessels, passengers and goods on these waterways 
shall be effected in accordance with the general conditions prescribed 
for transit in Section I above. 

When the two banks of an international river are within the same 
State goods in transit may be placed under seal or in the custody 
of customs agents. When the river forms a frontier goods and 
passengers in transit shall be exempt from all customs formalities; 
the loading and unloading of goods, and the embarkation and dis- 
embarkation of passengers, shall only take place in the ports speci- 
fied by the riparian State. 

Article 335. 

No dues of any kind other than those provided for in the present 
Part shall be levied along the course or at the mouth of these rivers. 

This provision shall not prevent the fixing by the riparian States 
of customs, local octroi or consumption duties, or the creation of 
reasonable and uniform charges levied in the ports, in accordance 
with public tariffs, for the use of cranes, elevators, quays, ware- 
houses, etc. 

Article 336. 

In default of any special organisation for carrying out the works 
connected with the upkeep and improvement of the international 
portion of a navigable system, each riparian State shall be bound 
to take suitable measures to remove any obstacle or danger to navi- 
gation and to ensure the maintenance of good conditions of navi- 
gation. 

If a State neglects to comply with this obligation any riparian 
State, or any State represented on the International Commission, if 
there is one, may appeal to the tribunal instituted for this purpose 
by the League of Nations. 

Article 337. 

The same procedure shall be followed in the case of a riparian 
State undertaking any works of a nature to impede navigation in the 
international section. The tribunal mentioned in the preceding 
Article shall be entitled to enforce the suspension or suppression of 
such works, making due allowance in its decisions for all rights in 
connection with irrigation, water-power, fisheries, and other national 



104 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

interests, which, with the consent of all the riparian States or of all 
the States represented on the International Commission, if there is 
one, shall be given priority over the requirements of navigation. 

Appeal to the tribunal of the League of Nations does not require 
the suspension of the works. 

Article 338. 

The regime set out in Articles 332 to 337 above shall be superseded 
by one to be laid down in a General Convention drawn up by the 
Allied and Associated Powers, and approved by the League of 
Nations, relating to the waterways recognised in such Convention as 
having an international character. This Convention shall apply in 
particular to the whole or part of the above-mentioned river systems 
of the Elbe (Labe), the Oder (Odra), the Niemen (Russstrom-M.i mel- 
Niemen), and the Danube, and such other parts of these river systems 
as may be covered by a general definition. 

Germany undertakes, in accordance with the provisions of Article 
379, to adhere to the said General Convention as well as to all pro- 
jects prepared in accordance with Article 343 below for the revision 
of existing international agreements and regulations. 

Article 339. 

Germany shall cede to the Allied and Associated Powers concerned, 
within a maximum period of three months from the date on which 
notification shall be given her, a proportion of the tugs and vessels 
remaining registered in the ports of the river systems referred to in 
Article 33i after the deduction of those surrendered by way of 
restitution or reparation. Germany shall in the same way cede ma- 
terial of all kinds necessary to the Allied and Associated Powers 
concerned for the utilisation of those river systems. 

The number of the tugs and boats, and the amount of the ma- 
terial so ceded, and their distribution, shall be determined by an 
arbitrator or arbitrators nominated by the United States of America, 
due regard being had to the legitimate needs of the parties con- 
cerned, and particularly to the shipping traffic during the five years 
preceding the war. 

All craft so ceded shall be provided with their fittings and gear, 
shall be in a good state of repair and in condition to carry goods, 
and shall be selected from among those most recently built. 

The cessions provided for in the present Article shall entail a 
credit of which the total amount, settled in a lump sum by the arbi- 
trator or arbitrators, shall not in any case exceed the value of the 
capital expended in the initial establishment of the material ceded, 
and shall be set off against the total sums due from Germany; in 
consequence, the indemnification of the proprietors shall be a matter 
for Germany to deal with. 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 105 

(2) Special Clauses relating to the Elbe, the Oder and the Niemen 
(Russstrom-Memel-Niemen ) . 

Article 340. 

The Elbe {Lobe) shall be placed under the administration of an 
International Commission which shall comprise: 

4 representatives of the German States bordering on the river ; 

2 representatives of the Czecho-Slovak State; 
1 representative of Great Britain; 

1 representative of France; 

1 representative of Italy ; 

1 representative of Belgium. 

Whatever be the number of members present, each delegation shall 
have the right to record a number of votes equal to the number of 
representatives allotted to it. 

If certain of these representatives cannot be appointed at the time 
of the coming into force of the present Treaty, the decisions of the 
Commission shall nevertheless be valid. 

Article 341. 

The Oder (Odra) shall be placed under the administration of an 
International Commission, which shall comprise: 
1 representative of Poland; 

3 representatives of Prussia; 

1 representative of the Czecho-Slovak State; 

1 representative of Great Britain; 

1 representative of France : 

1 representative of Denmark: 

1 representative of Sweden. 

If certain of these representatives cannot be appointed at the 
time of the coming into force of the present Treaty, the decisions 
■of the Commission shall nevertheless be valid. 

Article 342. 

On a request being made to the League of Nations by any riparian 
State, the Niemen {Kussstrom-Memel-Niern&n) shall be placed under 
the administration of an International Commission, which shall 
comprise one representative of each riparian State, and three repre- 
sentatives of other States specified by the League of Nations. 

Article 343. 

The International Commissions referred to in Articles 340 and 
341 shall meet within three months of the date of the coming into 
force of the present Treaty. The International Commission re- 
ferred to in Article 342 shall meet within three months from the 
date of the request made by a riparian State. Each of these Com- 
missions shall proceed immediately to prepare a project for the revi- 
sion of the existing international agreements and regulations, drawn 
up in conformity with the General Convention referred to in Article 
338, should such Convention have been already concluded. In the 
absence of such Convention, the project for revision shall be in con- 
formity with the principles of Articles 332 to 337 above. 



106 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

Article 344. 

The projects referred to in the preceding Article shall, inter alia: 

(a) designate the headquarters of the International Commission, 
and prescribe the manner in which its President is to be nominated; 

(o) specify the extent of the Commission's powers, particularly in 
regard to the execution of works of maintenance, control, and im- 
provement on the river system, the financial regime, the fixing and 
collection of charges, and regulations for navigation; 

(c) define the sections of the river or its tributaries to which the 
international regime shall be applied. 

Article 3+5. 

The international agreements and regulations at present govern- 
ing the navigation of the Elbe (Lobe), the Oder (Odra), and the 
Niemen (Russstrom-Memel-Niemen) shall be provisionally main- 
tained in force until the ratification of the above-mentioned projects. 
Nevertheless, in all cases where such agreements and regulations in 
force are in conflict with the provisions of Articles 332 to 337 above. 
or of the Genera] Convention to be concluded, the latter provisions 
shall prevail. 

(3) Special Clauses relating to the Danube. 

Article 34G. 

The European Commission of the Danube reassumes the powers it 
possessed before the war. Nevertheless, as a provisional measure. 
only representatives of Great Britain, France, Italy and Roumania 

shall constitute this Commission. 

Article 347. 

From the point where the competence of the European Commission 
ceases, the Danube system referred to in Article 331 shall be placed 
under the administration of an International Commission composed 
as follows: 

2 representatives of German riparian States; 

1 representative of each other riparian State; 

1 representative of each non-riparian State represented in the 
future on the European Commission of the Danube. 

If certain of these representatives cannot be appointed at the time 
of the coming into force of the present Treaty, the decisions of the 
Commission shall nevertheless be valid. 

Article 348. 

The International Commission provided for in the preceding 
Article shall meet as soon as possible after the coming into force of 
the present Treaty, and shall undertake provisionally the adminis- 
tration of the river in conformity with the provisions of Articles 
332 to 337, until such time as a definitive statute regarding the 
Danube is concluded by the Powers nominated by the Allied and 
Associated Powers. 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 107 

Article 349. 

Germany agrees to accept the regime which shall be laid down 
for the Danube by a Conference of the Powers nominated by the 
Allied and Associated Powers, which shall meet within one year 
after the coming into force of the present Treaty, and at which 
German representatives may be present. 

Article 350. 

The mandate given by Article 57 of the Treaty of Berlin of July 
13, 1878, to Austria-Hungary, and transferred by her to Hungary, 
to carry out works at the Iron Gates, is abrogated. The Commission 
entrusted with the administration of this part of the river shall lay 
down provisions for the settlement of accounts subject to the finan- 
cial provisions of the present Treaty. Charges which may be neces 
sary shall in no case be levied by Hungary. 

Article 351. 

Should the Czecho-Slovak State, the Serb-Croat-Slovene State or 
Roumania. with the authorisation of or under mandate from the 
International Commission, undertake maintenance, improvement; 
weir, or other works on a part of the river system which forms a 
frontier, these States shall enjoy on the opposite bank, and also on 
the part of the bed which is outside their territory, all necessary 
facilities for the survey, execution and maintenance of such works. 

Article 352. 

Germany shall be obliged to make to the European Commission of 
the Danube all restitutions, reparations and indemnities for damages 
inflicted on the Commission during the war. 

Article 353. 

Should a deep-draught Rhine-Danube navigable waterway be con- 
structed, Germany undertakes to apply thereto the regime prescribed 
in Articles 332 to 338. 

Chapter IV. 
clauses relating to the rhine and the moselle. 
Article 354. 

As from the coming into force of ,the present Treaty, the Conven- 
tion of Mannheim of October 17, 1868, together with the Final Pro- 
tocol thereof, shall continue to govern navigation on the Ehine, 
subject to the conditions hereinafter laid down. 

In the event of any provisions of the said Convention being in 
conflict with those laid down by the General Convention referred 
to in Article 338 (which shall apply to the Rhine) the provisions of 
the General Convention shall prevail. 

Within a maximum period of six months from the coming into 
force of the present Treaty, the Central Commission referred to in 



108 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

Article 355 shall meet to draw up a project of revision of the Con- 
vention of Mannheim. This project shall be drawn up in harmony 
with the provisions of the General Convention referred to above, 
should this have been concluded by that time, and shall be submitted 
to the Powers represented on the Central Commission. Germany 
hereby agrees to adhere to the project so drawn up. 

Further, the modifications set out in the following Articles shall 
immediately be made in the Convention of Mannheim. 

The Allied and Associated Powers reserve to themselves the right 
to arrive at an understanding in this connection with Holland, and 
Germany hereby agrees to acceed if required to any such under- 
standing. 

Article 355. 

The Central Commission provided for in the Convention of Mann- 
heim shall consist of nineteen members, viz. : 

2 representatives of the Netherlands: 

2 representatives of .Switzerland; 

4 representatives of German riparian States; 

4 representatives of France, which in addition shall appoint the 
President of the Commission ; 
• 2 representatives of Great Britain ; 

2 representatives of Italy; 

2 representatives of Belgium. 

The headquarters of the Central Commission shall be at Strasburg. 

Whatever be the number of members present, each Delegation shall 
have the right to record a number of votes equal to the number of 
representatives allotted to it. 

If certain of these representatives cannot be appointed at the time 
of the coming into force of the present Treaty, the decisions of the 
Commission shall nevertheless be valid. 

Article 356. 

Vessels of all nations, and their cargoes, shall have the same 
rights and privileges as those which are granted to vessels belonging 
to the Rhine navigation, and to their cargoes. 

None of the provisions contained in Articles 15 to 20 and 26 of the 
above-mentioned Convention of Mannheim, in Article 4 of the Final 
Protocol thereof, or in later Conventions, shall impede the free navi- 
gation of vessels and crews of all nations on the Rhine and on water- 
ways to which such Conventions apply, subject to compliance with 
the regulations concerning pilotage and other police measures drawn 
up by the Central Commission. 

The provisions of Article 22 of the Convention of Mannheim and 
of Article 5 of the Final Protocol thereof shall be applied only to 
vessels registered on the Ehine. The Central Commission shall de- 
cide on the steps to be taken to ensure that other vessels satisfy the 
conditions of the general regulations applying to navigation on the 
Rhine. 

Article 357. 

Within a maximum period of three months from the date on which 
notification shall be given Germany shall cede to France tugs and 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 109 

vessels, from among those remaining: registered in German Rhine 
ports after the deduction of those surrendered by way of restitution 
or reparation, or shares in German Rhine navigation companies. 

When vessels and tugs are ceded, such vessels and tugs, together 
with their fittings and gear, shall be in good state of repair, shall be 
in condition to carry on commercial traffic on the Rhine, and shall 
be selected from among those most recently built. 

The same procedure shall be followed in the matter of the cession 
by Germany to France of: 

(1) the installations, berthing and anchorage accommodation, plat- 
forms, docks, warehouses, plant, etc., which German subjects or Ger- 
man companies owned on August 1, 1914, in the port of Rotterdam, 
and 

(2) the shares or interests which Germany or German nationals 
possessed in such installations at the same date. 

The amount and specifications of such cessions shall be^ determined 
within one year of the coming into force of the present Treaty by an 
arbitrator or arbitrators appointed by the United States of America, 
due regard being had to the legitimate needs of the parties concerned. 

The cessions provided for in the present Article shall entail a credit 
of which the total amount, settled in a lump sum by the arbitrator or 
arbitrators mentioned above, shall not in any case exceed the value of 
the capital expended in the initial establishment of the ceded material 
and installations, and shall be set off against the total sums due from 
Germany ; in consequence, the indemnification of the proprietors shall 
be a matter for Germany to deal with. 

Article 358. 

Subject to the obligation to comply with the provisions of the Con- 
vention of Mannheim or of the Convention which may be substituted 
therefor, and to the stipulations of the present Treaty, France shall 
have on the whole course of the Rhine included between the two 
extreme points of the French frontiers: 

(a) the right to take water from the Rhine to feed navigation 

and irrigation canals (constructed or to be constructed) or 
for any other purpose, and to execute on the German bank 
all works necessary for the exercise of this right; 

(b) the exclusive right to the power derived from works of regu- 

lation on the river, subject to the payment to Germany of 
the value of half the power actually produced, this pay- 
ment, which will take into account the cost of the works 
necessary for producing the power, being made either in 
money or in power and in default of agreement being de- 
termined by arbitration. For this purpose France alone 
shall have the right to carry out in this part of the river 
all works of regulation (weirs or other works) which she 
may consider necessary for the production of power. Simi- 
larly, the right of taking water from the Rhine is accorded 
to Belgium to feed the Rhine-Meuse navigable waterway 
provided for below. 
The exercise of the rights mentioned under (a) and (b) of the 
present Article shall not interfere with navigability nor reduce the 
facilities for navigation, either in the bed of the Rhine or in the 



110 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

derivations which may be substituted therefor, nor shall it involve 
any increase in the tolls formerly levied under the Convention in 
force. All proposed schemes shall be laid before the Central Com- 
mission in order that that Commission may assure itself that these 
conditions are complied with. 

To ensure the proper and faithful execution of the provisions 
contained in (a) and (b) above, Germany: 

(1) binds herself not to undertake or to allow the construction 
of any lateral canal or any derivation on the right bank of the river 
opposite the French frontiers; 

(2) recognises the possession by France of the right of support on 
and the right of way over all lands situated on the right bank which 
may be required in order to survey, to build, and to operate weirs 
which France, with the consent of the Central Commission, may sub- 
sequently decide to establish. In accordance with such consent, 
France shall be entitled to decide upon and fix the limits of the neces- 
sary sites, and she shall be permitted to occupy such lands after a 
period of two months after simple notification, subject to the pay- 
ment by her to Germany of indemnities of which the total amount 
shall be fixed by the Central Commission. Germany shall make it 
her business to indemnify the proprietors whose property will be 
burdened with such servitudes or permanently occupied by the works. 

Should Switzerland so demand, and if the Central Commission 
approves, the same rights shall be accorded to Switzerland for the 
part of the river forming her frontier with other riparian States; 

(3) shall hand over to the French Government, during the month 
following the coming into force of the present Treaty, all projects, 
designs, drafts of concessions and of specifications concerning the 
regulation of the Rhine for any purpose whatever which have been 
drawn up or received by the Governments of Alsace-Lorraine or of 
the Grand Duchy of Baden. 

Article 359. 

Subject to the preceding provisions, no works shall be carried out 
in the bed or on either bank of the Rhine where it forms the boundary 
•of France and Germany without the previous approval of the Central 
Commission or of its agents. 

Article 3G0. 

France reserves the option of substituting herself as regards the 
rights and obligations resulting from agreements arrived at between 
the Government of Alsace-Lorraine and the Grand Duchy of Baden 
concerning the works to be carried out on the Rhine; she may also 
denounce such agreements within a term of five years dating from 
the coming into force of the present Treaty. 

France shall also have the option of causing works to be carried 
out which may be recognised as necessary by the Central Commission 
for the upkeep or improvement of the navigability of the Rhine 
above Mannheim. 

Article 301. 

Should Belgium within a period of 25 years from the coming into 
force of the present Treaty decide to create a deep-draught Rhine- 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. Ill 

Meuse navigable waterway, in the region of Ruhrort, Germany shall 
be bound to construct, in accordance with plans to be communicated 
to her by the Belgian Government, after agreement with the Central 
Commission, the portion of this navigable waterway situated within 
her territory. 

The Belgian Government shall, for this purpose, have the right to 
carry out on the ground all necessary surveys. 

Should Germany fail to carry out all or part of these works, the 
Central Commission shall be entitled to carry them out instead; and, 
for this purpose, the Commission may decide upon and fix the limits 
of the necessary sites and occupy the ground after a period of two 
months after simple notification, subject to the payment of indem- 
nities to be fixed by it and paid by Germany. 

This navigable waterway shall be placed under the same adminis- 
trative regime as the Rhine itself, and the division of the cost of 
initial construction, including the above indemnities, among the 
States crossed thereby shall be made by the Central Commission. 

Article 362. 

Germany hereby agrees to offer no objection to any proposals of 
the Central Rhine Commission for extending its jurisdiction : 

(1) to the Moselle below the Franco-Luxemburg frontier down to 
the Rhine, subject to the consent of Luxemburg ; 

(2) to the Rhine above Basle up to the Lake of Constance, subject 
to the consent of Switzerland ; 

(3) to the lateral canals and channels which may be established 
either to duplicate or to improve naturally navigable sections of the 
Rhine or the Moselle, or to connect two naturally navigable sections 
of these rivers, and also any other parts of the Rhine river system 
which may be covered by the General Convention provided for in 
Article 338 above. 

Chatter V. 

CLAUSE.-, GIVING TO THE CZECHO-SLOVAK STATE THE USE OF NORTHERN 

PORTS. 

Article 363. 

In the ports of Hamburg and Stettin Germany shall lease to the 
Czecho-Slovak State, for a period of 99 years, areas which shall be 
placed under the general regime of free zones and shall be used for 
the direct transit of goods coming from or going to that State. 

Article 364. 

The delimitation of these areas, and their equipment, their exploita- 
tion, and in general all conditions for their utilisation, including the 
amount of the rental, shall be decided by a Commission consisting of 
one delegate of Germany, one delegate of the Czecho-Slovak State 
and one delegate of Great Britain. These conditions shall be suscep- 
tible of revision every ten years in the same manner. 

Germany declares in advance that she will adhere to the decisions 
so taken. 



112 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

Section III. 

RAILWAYS. 

Chapter I. 

clauses relating to international transport. 

Article 365. 

Goods coming from the territories of the Allied and Associates 
Powers, and going to Germany, or in transit through Germany from 
or to the territories of the Allied and Associated Powers, shall enjoy 
on the German railways as regards charges to be collected (rebates 
and drawbacks beingtaken into account), facilities, and all other 
matters, the most favourable treatment applied to goods of the same 
kind carried on any German lines, either in internal traffic, or for 
export, import or in transit, under similar conditions of transport, 
for example as regards length of route 1 . The same rule shall be 
applied, on the request of one or more of the Allied and Associated 
Powers, to goods specially designated by such Power or Powers 
coming from Germany ami going to their territories. 

International tariffs established in accordance with the rates 
referred to in the preceding paragraph and involving through way- 
bills shall be established when one of the Allied and Associated 
Powers shall require it from Germany. 

Article 366. 

From the coming into force of the present Treaty the High Con- 
tracting Parties shall renew, in so far as concerns them and under 
the reserves indicated in the second paragraph of the present Article, 
the conventions and arrangements signed at Berne on October 14, 
1890, September 20, 1893, July 16, 1895, June 16, 1898, and Sep- 
tember 19, 1906, regarding the transportation of goods by rail. 

If within five years from the date of the coming into force of the 
present Treaty a new convention for the transportation of pas- 
sengers, luggage and goods by rail shall have been concluded to 
replace the Berne Convention of October 14, 1890, and the subse- 
quent additions referred to above, this new convention and the 
supplementary provisions for international transport by rail which 
may be based on it shall bind Germany, even if she shall have refused 
to take part in the preparation of the convention or to subscribe to 
it. Until a new convention shall have been concluded, Germany 
shall conform to the provisions of the Berne Convention and the 
subsequent additions referred to above, and to the current supple- 
mentary provisions. 

Article 367. 

Germany shall be bound to co-operate in the establishment of 
through ticket services (for passengers and their luggage) which shall 
be required by any of the Allied and Associated Powers to ensure 
their communication by rail with each other and with all other 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 113 

countries by transit across the territories of Germany: in particular 
Germany shall, for this purpose, accept trains and carriages coming 
from the territories of the Allied and Associated Powers and shall 
forward them with a speed at least equal to that of her best long- 
distance trains on the same lines. The rates applicable to such 
through services shall not in any case be higher than the rates col- 
lected on German internal services for the same distance, under the 
same. conditions of speed and comfort. 

The tariffs applicable under the same conditions of speed and 
comfort to the transportation of emigrants going to or coming from 
ports of the Allied and Associated Powers and using the German 
railways shall not be at a higher kilometric rate than the most 
favourable tariffs (drawbacks and rebates being taken into account) 
enjoyed on the said railways by emigrants going to or coming from 
any other ports. 

Article 368. 

Germany shall not apply specially to such through services, or to 
the transportation of emigrants going to or coming from the ports 
of the Allied and Associated Powers, any technical, fiscal or adminis- 
trative measures, such as measures of customs examination, general 
police, sanitary p3lice, and control, the result of which would be to 
impede or delay such services. 

Article 369. 

In case of transport partly by rail and partly by internal navigation, 
with or without through way-bill, the preceding Articles shalf apply 
to the part of the journey performed by rail. 

Chapter II. 

rolling-stock. 

Article 370. 

Germany undertakes that German wagons shall be fitted with 
apparatus allowing: 

(1) of their inclusion in goods trains on the lines of such of the 
Allied and Associated Powers as are parties to the Berne Convention 
of May 15, 1886, as modified on May IS, 1907, without hampering the 
action of the continuous brake which may be adopted in such countries 
within ten years of the coming into force of the present Treaty, and 

(2) of the acceptance of wagons of such countries in all goods 
trains on the German lines. 

The rolling stock of the Allied and Associated Powers shall enjoy 
on the German lines the same treatment as German rolling stock as 
regards movement, upkeep and repairs. 
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Chapter III. 

cessions of railway lines. 

Article 371. 

Subject to any special provisions concerning the cession of ports 
waterways and railways situated in the territories over which 
Germany abandons her' sovereignty, and to the financial conditions 
relating to the concessionnaires and the pensioning of the personnel, 
the cession of railways will take place under the following conditions : 

(1) The works and installations of all the railroads shall be handed 
over complete and in good condition. 

(2) When a railway system possessing its own rolling-stock is 
handed over in its entirety by Germany to one of the Allied and 
Associated Powers, such stock shall be handed over complete, in 
accordance with the last inventory before November 11, 191S, and 
in a normal state of upkeep. 

(3) As regards lines without any special rolling-stock, Commissions 
of experts designated by the Allied and Associated Powers, on which 
Germany shall be represented, shall fix the proportion of the stock 
existing on the system to which those lines belong to be handed 
over. These Commissions shall have regard to the amount of the 
material registered on these lines in the last inventory before Novem- 
ber 11, 1918, the length of track (sidings included), and the nature 
and amount of the traffic. These Commissions shall also specify the 
locomotives, carriages and wagons to be handed over in each case; 
they shall decide upon the conditions of their acceptance, and shall 
make the provisional arrangements necessary to ensure their repair 
in German workshops. 

(4) Stocks of stores, fittings and plant shall be handed over 
under the same conditions as the rolling-stock. 

The provisions of paragraphs 3 and 4 above shall be applied to 
the lines of former Russian Poland converted by Germany to the 
German gauge, such lines being regarded as detached from the 
Prussian State System. 

Chapter IV. 

provisions relating to certain railway lines. 

Article 372. 

When as a result of the fixing of new frontiers a railway connec- 
tion between two parts of the same country crosses another country, 
or a branch line from one country has its terminus in another, the 
conditions of working, if not specifically provided for in the present 
Treaty, shall be laid down in a convention between the railway 
administrations concerned. If the administrations cannot come to 
an agreement as to the terms of such convention, the points of differ- 
ence shall be decided by commissions of experts composed as pro- 
vided in the preceding Article. 



treaty of peace with germany. 115 

Article 373. 

Within a period of five years from the coming into force of the 
present Treaty the Czecho-Slovak State may require the construc- 
tion of a railway line in German territory between the stations of 
Schlauney and Nachod. The cost of construction shall be borne by 
the Czecho-Slovak State. 

Article 374. 

Germany undertakes to accept, within ten years of the coming 
into force of the present Treaty, on request being made by the 
Swiss Government after agreement with the Italian Government, 
the denunciation of the International Convention of October 13, 
1909, relative to the St. Gothard railway. In the absence of agree- 
ment as to the conditions of such denunciation, Germany hereby 
agrees to accept the decision of an arbitrator designated by the 
United States of America. 

Chapter V. 

transitory provisions. 

Article 375. 

Germany shall carry out the instructions given her, in regard to 
transport, by an authorised body acting on behalf of the Allied and 
Associated Powers: 

(1) For the carriage of troops under the provisions of the present 
Treaty, and of material, ammunition and supplies for army use; 

(2) As a temporary measure, for the transportation of supplies for 
certain regions, as well as for the restoration, as rapidly as possible, 
of the normal conditions of transport, and for the organisation of 
postal and telegraphic services. 

Section IV. 

DISPUTES 

and revision of permanent clauses. 

Article 376. 

Disputes which may arise between interested Powers with regard 
to the interpretation and application of the preceding Articles shall 
be settled as provided by the League of Nations. 

Article 377. 

At any time the League of Nations may recommend the revision 
of such of these Articles as relate to a permanent administrative 
regime. 



116 treaty of peace with germany. 

Article 378. 

The stipulations in Articles 321 to 330, 332, 365, and 367 to 369 
shall be subject to revision by the Council of the League of Nations 
at any time after five years from the coming into force of the present 
Treaty. 

Failing such revision, no Allied or Associated Power can claim 
after the expiration of the above period of five years the benefit of 
any of the stipulations in the Articles enumerated above on behalf 
of any portion of its territories in which reciprocity is not accorded 
in respect of such stipulations. The period of five years during 
which reciprocity cannot be demanded may be prolonged by the 
Council of the League of Nations. 

Section V. 

SPECIAL PROVISION. 

Article 379. 

Without prejudice to the special obligations imposed on her by the 
present Treaty for the benefit of the Allied and Associated Powers, 
Germany undertakes to adhere to any General Conventions regarding 
the international regime of transit, waterways, ports or railways which 
may be concluded by the Allied and Associated Powers, with the 
approval of the League of Nations, within five years of the coming 
into force of the present Treaty. 

Section VI. 

CAUSES RELATING TO THE KIEL CANAL. 

Article 3 SO. 

The Kiel Canal and its approaches shall be maintained free and 
open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations at peace 
with Germany on terms of entire equality. 

Article 381. 

The nationals, property and vessels of all Powers shall, in respect 
of charges, facilities, and in all other respects, be treated on a footing 
of perfect equality in the use of the Canal, no distinction being made 
to the detriment of nationals, property and vessels of any Power 
between them and the nationals, property and vessels of Germany or 
of the most favoured nation. 

No impediment shall be placed on the movement of persons or 
vessels other than those arising out of police, customs, sanitary, 
emigration or immigration regulations and those relating to the import 
or export of prohibited goods. Such regulations must be reasonable 
and uniform and must not unnecessarily impede traffic. 

Article 382. 

Only such charges may be levied on vessels using the Canal or its 
approaches as are intended to cover in an equitable manner the cost 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 117 

of maintaining in a navigable condition, or of improving, the Canal 
or its approaches, or to meet expenses incurred m the interests of 
navigation. The schedule of such charges shall be calculated on the 
basis of such expenses, and shall be posted up in the ports. 

These charges shall be levied in such a manner as to render any- 
detailed examination of cargoes unnecessary, except in the case of 
suspected fraud or contravention. 

Article 383. 

Goods in transit may be placed under seal or in the custody of 
customs agents; the loading and unloading of goods, and the embark- 
ation and disembarkation of passengers, shall only take place in the 
ports specified by Germany. 

Article 3S4. 

No charges of any kind other than those provided for in the present 
Treaty shall be levied along the course or at the approaches of the 
Kiel Canal. 

Article 3S5. 

Germany shall be bound to take suitable measures to remove any 
obstacle or danger to navigation, and to ensure the maintenance of 
good conditions of navigation. She shall not undertake any works 
of a nature to impede navigation on the Canal or its approaches. 

Article 386. 

In the event of violation of any of the conditions of Articles 380 
to 386, or of disputes as to the interpretation of these Articles, any 
interested Power can appeal to the jurisdiction instituted for the 
purpose by the League of Nations. 

In order to avoid reference of small questions to the League of 
Nations, Germany will establish a local authority at Kiel qualified 
to deal with disputes in the first instance and to give satisfaction so 
far as possible to complaints which may be presented through the 
consular representatives of the interested Powers. 

PART XIV. 

guarantees. 

Section 1. 

western europe. 

Article 428. 

As a guarantee for the execution of the present Treaty by Germany, 
the German territory situated to the west of the Rhine, together with 
the bridgeheads, will be occupied by Allied and Associated troops for 
a period of fifteen years from the coming into force of the present 
Treaty. 



118 treaty of peace with germany. 

Article 429. 

If the conditions of the present Treaty are faithfully carried out 
by Germany, the occupation referred to in Article 428 will be suc- 
cessively restricted as follows: 

(1) At the expiration of five years there will be evacuated: the 
bridgehead of Cologne and the territories north of a line running 
along the Ruhr, then along the railway Jiilich, Duren, Euskirchen, 
Rheinbach, thence along the road Rheinbach to Sinzig, and reaching 
the Rhine at the confluence with the Ahr; the roads, railways and 
places mentioned above being excluded from the area evacuated. 

(2) At the expiration of ten years there will be evacuated: the 
bridgehead of Coblenz and the territories north of a line to be drawn 
from the intersection between the frontiers of Belgium, Germany 
and Holland, running about from 4 kilometres south of Aix la-Chapelle, 
then to and following the crest of Forst Gemund, then east of the 
railway of the Urft Valley, then along Blankenheim, Valdorf, Dreis, 
Ulmen to and following the Moselle from Bremm to Nehren, then 
passing by Kappel and Simmern, then following the ridge of the 
heights between Simmern and the Rhine and reaching this river at 
Bacharach; all the places, valleys, roads and railways mentioned 
above being excluded from the area evacuated. 

(3) At the expiration of fifteen years there will be evacuated: the 
bridgehead of Mainz, the bridgehead of Kehl and the remainder of 
the German territory under occupation. 

If at that date the guarantees against unprovoked aggression by 
Germany are not considered sufficient by the Allied and Associated 
Governments, the evacuation of the occupying troops may be de- 
layed to the extent regarded as necessary for the purpose of obtain- 
ing the required guarantees. 

Article 430. 

In case either during the occupation or after the expiration of the 
fifteen years referred to above the Reparation Commission finds 
that Germany refuses to observe the whole or part of her obligations 
under the present Treaty with regard to reparation, the whole or 
part of the areas specified in Article 429 will be re-occupied imme- 
diately by the Allied and Associated forces. 

Article 431. 

If before the expiration of the period of fifteen years Germany 
complies with all the undertakings resulting from the present Treaty, 
the occupying forces will be withdrawn immediately. 

Article 432. 

All matters relating to the occupation and not provided for by 
the present Treaty shall be regulated by subsequent agreements, 
which Germany hereby undertakes to observe. 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 119 

Section II. 

eastern europe. 

Article 433. 

As a guarantee for the execution of the provisions of the present 
Treaty, by which Germany accepts definitely the abrogation of the 
Brest-Litovsk Treaty, and of all treaties, conventions and agreements 
entered into by her with the Maximalist Government in Russia, and 
in order to ensure the restoration of peace and good government 
in the Baltic Provinces and Lithuania, all German troops at present 
in the said territories shall return to within the frontiers of Germany 
as soon as the Governments of the Principal Allied and Associated 
Powers shall think the moment suitable, having regard to the internal 
situation of these territories. These troops shall abstain from all 
requisitions and seizures and from any other coercive measures, with 
a view to obtaining supplies intended for Germany, and shall in no 
way interfere with such measures for national defence as may be 
adopted by the Provisional Governments of Esthonia, Latvia and 
Lithuania. 

No other German troops shall, pending the evacuation or after 
the evacuation is complete, be admitted to the said territories. 

PART XV. 

miscellaneous provisions. 
Article 434. 

Germany undertakes to recognise the full force of the Treaties of 
Peace and Additional Conventions which may be concluded by the 
Allied and Associated Powers with the Powers who fought on the 
side of Germany and to recognise whatever dispositions may be 
made concerning the territories of the former Austro-Hungarian 
Monarchy, of the Kingdom of Bulgaria and of the Ottoman Empire, 
and to recognize the new States within their frontiers as there laid 
down. 

Article 435. 

The High Contracting Parties, while they recognize the guarantees 
stipulated by the Treaties of 1815, and especially by the Act of 
November 20, 1815, in favour of Switzerland, the said guarantees 
constituting international obligations for the maintenance of peace, 
declare nevertheless that the provisions of these treaties, conventions, 
declarations and other supplementary Acts concerning the neutralized 
zone of Savoy, as laid down in paragraph 1 of Article 92 of the Final 
Act of the Congress of Vienna and in paragraph 2 of Article 3 of the 
Treaty of Paris of November 20, 1815, are no longer consistent with 
present conditions. For this reason the High Contracting Parties 
take note of the agreement reached between the French Government 
and the Swiss Government for the abrogation of the stipulations 
relating to this zone which are and remain abrogated. 

The High Contracting Parties also agree that the stipulations of 
the Treaties of 1815 and of the other supplementary Acts concerning 



120 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

the free zones of Upper Savoy and the Gex district are no longer 
consistent with present conditions, and that it is for France and 
Switzerland to come to an agreement together with a view to settling 
between themselves the status of these territories under such condi- 
tions as shall be considered suitable by both countries. 

ANNEX. 

I 

The Swiss Federal Council has informed the French Government 
on May 5, 1919, that after examining the provisions of Article 435 
in a like spirit of sincere friendship it has happily reached the con- 
clusion that it was possible to acquiesce in it under the following 
conditions and reservations: 

(1) The neutralized zone of Haute-Savoie: 

(a) It will be understood that as long as the Federal Chambers 
have not ratified the agreement come to between the two Govern- 
ments concerning the abrogation of the stipulations in respect of the 
neutralized zone of Savoy, nothing will be definitively settled, on 
one side or the other, in regard to this subject. 

(b) The assent given by the Swiss Government to the abrogation 
of the above mentioned stipulations presupposes, in conformity with 
the text adopted, the recognition of the guarantees formulated in 
favour of Switzerland by the Treaties of 1815 and particularly by the 
Declaration of November 20, 1815. 

(c) The agreement between the Governments of France and 
Switzerland for the abrogation of the above mentioned stipulations 
will only be considered as valid if the Treaty of Peace contains this 
Article in its present wording. In addition the Parties to the Treaty 
of Peace should endeavour to obtain the assent of the signatory Powers 
of the Treaties of 1815 and of the Declaration of November 20, 1815, 
which are not signatories of the present Treaty of Peace. 

(2) Free zone of Haute-Savoie and the district of Gex: 

(a) The Federal Council makes the most express reservations to 
the interpretation to be given to the statement mentioned in the last 
paragraph of the above Article for insertion in the Treaty of Peace, 
which provides that "the stipulations of the Treaties of 1815 and other 
supplementary acts concerning the free zones of Plaute-Savoie and 
the Gex district are no longer consistent with present conditions". 
The Federal Council would not wish that its acceptance of the above 
wording should lead to the conclusion that it would agree to the 
suppression of a system intended to give neighbouring territory the 
benefit of a special regime which is appropriate to the geographical 
and economical situation and which has been well tested. 

In the opinion of the Federal Council the question is not the modi- 
fication of the customs system of the zones as set up by the Treaties 
mentioned above, but only the regulation in a manner more appro- 
priate to the economic conditions oi the present day of the terms of the 
exchange of goods between the regions in question. The Federal 
Council has been led to make the preceding observations by the 
perusal of the draft Convention concerning the future constitution of 
the zones which was annexed to the note of April 26 from the French 
Government. While making the above reservations the Federal 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 121 

Council declares its readiness to examine in the most friendly spirit 
any proposals which the French Government may deem it convenient 
to make on the subject. 

(b) It is conceded that the stipulations of the Treaties of 1815 and 
other supplementary acts relative to the free zones will remain in force 
until a new arrangement is come to between France and Switzerland 
to regulate matters in this territory. 

II 

The French Government have addressed to the Swiss Government, 
on May 18, 1919, the following note in reply to the communication set 
out in 'the preceding paragraph: 

In a note dated May 5 the Swiss Legation in Paris was good enough 
to inform the Government of the French Republic that the Federal 
Government adhered to the proposed Article to be inserted in the 
Treaty of Peace between the Allied and Associated Governments and 
Germany. 

The French Government have taken note with much pleasure of 
the agreement thus reached, and, at their request, the proposed 
Article, which had been accepted by the Allied and Associated 
Governments, has been inserted under No. 435 in the Peace conditions 
presented to the German Plenipotentiaries. 

The Swiss Government, in their note of May 5 on this subject, 
have expressed various views and reservations. 

Concerning the observations relating to the free zones of Haute- 
Savoie and the Gex district, the French Government have the honour 
to observe that the provisions of the last paragraph of Article 435 
are so clear that their purport cannot be misapprehended, especially 
where it implies that no other Power but France and Switzerland will 
in future be interested in that question. 

The French Government, on their part, are anxious to protect the 
interests of the French territories concerned, and, with that object, 
having their special situation in view, they bear in mind the de- 
sirability of assuring them a suitable customs regime and determining,' 
in a manner better suited to present conditions, the methods of ex- 
changes between these territories and the adjacent Swiss territories, 
while taking into account the reciprocal interests of both regions. 

It is understood that this must in no way prejudice the right of 
France to adjust her customs line in this region in conformity with 
her political frontier, as is done on the other portions of her territorial 
boundaries, and as was done by Switzerland long ago on her own 
boundaries in this region. 

The French Government are pleased to note on this subject in what 
a friendly disposition the Swiss Government take this opportunity of 
declaring their willingness to consider any French proposal dealing 
with the system to be substituted for the present regime of the said 
free zones, which the French Government intend to formulate in the 
same friendly spirit. 

Moreover, the French Government have no doubt that the pro- 
visional maintenance of the regime of 1815 as to the free zones 
referred to in the above mentioned paragraph of the note from the 
Swiss Legation of May 5, whose object is to provide for the passage 
.from the present regime to the conventional regime, will cause no 



122 TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 

delay whatsoever in the establishment of the new situation which 
has been found necessary by the two Governments. This remark 
applies also to the ratification by the Federal Chambers, dealt with 
in paragraph 1 (a), of the Swiss note of May 5, under the heading 
"Neutralized zone of Haute-Savoie". 

Article 436. 

The High Contracting Parties declare and place on record that 
they have taken note of the Treaty signed by the Government of 
the French Republic on July 17, 1918, with 'His Serene Highness 
the Prince of Monaco defining the relations between France and the 
Principality. 

Article 437. 

The High • - / Parties agree that, in the absence of a subse- 

quent agreement to the contrary, the Chairman of any Commission 

established by it Treaty shall in the event of an equality of 

votes be entitled bo . »te. 

Article 438. 

The Allied and Associated Powers agree that where Christian re- 
ligious missions were being maintained by German societies of per- 
sons m territory belonging to them, or of which the government is 
entrusted to them in accordance with the present Treaty, the property 
which these missions or missionary societies possessed, including that 
of trading societies whose profits were devoted to the support of 
missions, shall continue to be devoted to missionary purposes. In 
order to ensure the due execution of this undertaking the Allied and 
Associated Governments will hand over such property to boards of 
trustees appointed by or approved by the Governments and com- 
posed of persons holding the faith of the Mission whose property is 
involved. 

' The Allied and Associated Governments, while continuing to 
maintain full control as to the individuals by whom the Missions are 
conducted, will safeguard the interests of such Missions. 

Germany, taking note of the above undertaking, agrees to accept 
all arrangements made or to be made by the Allied or Associated 
Government concerned for carrying on the work of the said missions 
or trading societies and waives all claims on their behalf. 

Article 439. 

Without prejudice to the provisions of the present Treaty. Germany 
undertakes not to put forward directly or indirectly against any 
Allied or Associated Power, signatory of the present Treaty, including 
those which without having declared war, have broken off diplomatic 
relations with the German Empire, any pecuniary claim based on 
events which occurred at any time before the coming into force of 
the present Treaty. 

The present stipulation will bar completely and finally all claims of 
this nature, which will be thenceforward extinguished, whoever 
may be the parties in interest. 



TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. 123 

Article 440. 

Germany accepts and recognises as valid and binding all decrees 
and orders concerning German shops and goods and all orders relating 
to the payment of costs made by any Prize Court of any of the Allied 
or Associated Powers, and undertakes not to put forward any claim 
arising out of such decrees or orders on behalf of any German national. 

The Allied and Associated Powers reserve the right to examine in 
such manner as they may determine all decisions and orders of 
German Prize Courts, whether affecting the property rights of 
nationals of those Powers or of neutral Powers. Germany agrees 
to furnish copies of all the documents constituting the record of the 
cases, including the decisions and orders made, and to accept and 
give effect to the recommendations made after such examination of 
the cases. 

The present Treaty, of which the French and English texts are 
both authentic, shall be ratified. 

The deposit of ratifications shall be made at Paris as soon as pos- 
sible. 

Powers of which the seat of the Government is outside Europe will 
be entitled merely to inform the Government of the French Republic 
through their diplomatic representative at Paris that their ratifica- 
tion has been given; in that case they must transmit the instrument 
of ratification as soon as possible. 

A first proces-verbal of the deposit of ratifications will be drawn 
up as soon as the Treaty has been ratified by Germany on the one 
hand, and by three of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers on 
the other hand. 

From the date of this first proces-verbal the Treaty will come into 
force between the High Contracting Parties who have ratified it. 
For the determination of all periods of time provided for in the present 
Treaty this date will be the date of the coming into force of the 
Treaty. 

In all other respects the Treaty will enter into force for each Power 
at the date of the deposit of its ratification. 

The French Government will transmit to all the signatory Powers 
a certified copv of the proces-verbaux of the deposit of ratifications. 

IN FAI{m 'WHEREOF the above-named Plenipotentiaries have 
signed the present Treaty. 

Done at Versailles, the twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand nine 
hundred and nineteen, in a single copy which will remain deposited 
in the archives of the French Republic, and of which authenticated 
copies will be transmitted to each of the Signatory Powers. 

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